The Day the Yarn Gods Smiled Upon Me

We had a lovely rainy Saturday.  After The Girl and I had a nap, I decided to head over to the Goodwill to look for some desperately needed clothes, and some new shelves for my fabric stash.  I did not find any clothes or shelves, but I did stumble upon the mother lode of yarn stashes.  Remember when I said, “I can stop buying fabric and yarn?”

I see yarn at the Goodwill pretty much every time I’m there, but this yarn was different.  This stash very clearly belonged to someone who loves good yarn and loves to knit.  There was not a ball of Red Heart to be found.  The store had them bagged up in large plastic bags, and was selling them for $4 apiece.  Thinking of my already embarrassing yarn stash at home, I picked only four bags and headed home.

I giddily showed them to the Daddy Monkey, and told him, “This is only a fraction of what they had.”  And then he spoke the ill-fated words, “why didn’t you buy all of it?”  This is why I love him. His logic of “why not stock up on the good stuff for cheap” was enough to convince me to rapidly get the kids ready and load everyone up in the car for another trip out there.  I then bought six more bags, still leaving a few behind.

So let me introduce my new yarn stash.  I think I probably doubled my stash with this purchase.  So for $40, I got luscious yarns in cashmere, merino wool, pima cotton, silk, alpaca, and angora.

It was all I could do to not dump them on the floor and roll around in them.  So instead I just took them out and sorted them by color and found that I have enough of some of them to make a sweater for The Girl.  Certainly enough yarn to make funky striped sweaters for everyone.  (Except The Boy who said he DID NOT want a sweater.)

So now I really need some new shelves because I have nowhere to put this yarn.  It sits, still in bags, piled up on my sewing desk.

I feel so happy about this purchase. That I somehow got my hands on on this glorious yarn shop quality yarn for insanely cheap feels like a small miracle to me.  I feel like I should do something to balance out the karma on this, so I decided to make the commitment to do something I have wanted to do for many years.  To make a wool sweater for Children in Common, a charity program that provides assistance to children in orphanages in Russia.  Ever since I learned to knit while pregnant with The Boy, I have wanted to do this but have never found the time.  I still don’t have the time, but I do have the yarn, so that’s a start.