Unable to drive for six weeks, I had to find an alternate method of satisfying my yarn urges. I’m a modern woman, it’s OK to do this in the privacy of my bedroom, right? I’ve spent hours today at E-Bay shopping on my wireless laptop. Arriving home from school, Mr. 15 yr old with attitude says, "What a waste of time, do you realize you’ve spent hours shopping for pieces of string?"
As a matter of fact, yes, I do realize it. Always the queen of rationalization and a bargain hunter, the combination of e-bay, online yarn shops and not spending my $4.58 per day on McDonald’s brekkies for my month recovering at home, have added up to some major yarn purchases. String at a discount, that’s my goal these days. I’ll post photos as they arrive, but the spree includes:
1. Classic Elite Miracle – my favourite, most soft yarn I’ve ever felt made from alpaca and tencel for a Fiddlesticks wrap called C’est LaVie
2. Classic Elite Premier – tencel and cotton, for Ruffles from Scarfstyle
3. Marks and Kattens Iceand, AKA Online Iceland – that yarn I’ve used for a scarf, the one with the tiny little snowballs scattered on top. I paid $8.50 a skein for this once in a scarf splurge. Found it on e-bay for $2.99! Enough for a sweater.
4. A replacement for my Gingher craft scissors, which are hiding from me, somewhere in my house, probably suffering from exhaustion due to overuse.
5. Two skeins of Bouton D’Or Opale and another three skeins of Classic Elite Miracle to add to my existing stash so I can make a decent sized shawl and not worry about running out of yarn.
And you thought this was turning into a knee reconstruction blog.
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