Another Local Haul

I went looking for more bargain bags of yarn at our local Goodwill, and scored three this time that were packed with wonderful skeins, most brand-new and all unsoiled and odor-free.

First bag had some interesting novelty yarns, a super saver and a ball of Sugar N' Cream cotton yarn. I don't have much cotton yarn and I really liked the colors of this ball.

Second bag had Uber Luxe grays, blacks, a glitzy cream hygge charm from Red Heartand a really neat variegated skein. The glitzy one stole my heart.

Third bag had all new skeins: three of Wool Ease Thick and Thin, two new balls of no-wool sock yarn, a yarn bee skein and what I believe is another super saver. The beachy colors really appealed to me, and will make up for all the brown yarn I used to make my Ocean Tranquility throw.

Because many of the skeins didn't come with labels I can only guess what some of them are, but I know the Wool Ease is $5.99 a skein, the super savers retail for $4.49, the Sugar N' Cream is $3.29, the Uber Luxe are $7.29 each, the sock yarn is marked $4.99 each, and the glitzy cream hygge charm is marked $9.99. Everything that has a label or a price tag adds up to $64.79. Resale would be about $70.00 for the rest.

The value of the 24 skeins added together total $134.79. I paid $20.97 for all of it, or about $1.15 per skein.

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Other Stashes

Along with clearing out the spare bedroom and tidying my office and our guest bedroom, I decided to reorganize some of my stashes. This is all the yarn I have on hand, sorted by color. It looks like a lot, but lately I've been using up a minimum of half a bin every month, so this is approximately a year's supply. All of my solid color cotton perle thread. I go through a lot of this every year, too. I need a container in which I can fit all of it together, but I haven't found the right one yet. I won't show you all of my fabric -- I'm still reorganizing this stash -- but I went through everything and donated two bins of fabric I won't need to the local quilter's guild.

Downsizing

This was my fabric stash once I sorted everything -- 22 full bins. I spent a day taking out and boxing up what I could part with, with the goal of trying to reduce it by half, so I'd have 11 bins. I was very strict with myself, and removed everything that for one reason or another I was sure I wouldn't be able to use. This is what I ended up with -- 12 bins of fabric that I'm keeping. It's not quite half, but close enough. Half of what I took out went to a local quilter friend, a school and Goodwill. These four tightly-packed bins will be going to the local quilting guild once I make arrangements with them for a drop-off place. I am relieved and a little sad and now determined to control my impulses to thrift more fabric. I don't want to do this again, so until I use up six bins, I can't for any reason bring any new fabric into the house.

In Progress

I promised myself I would show you the good, bad and ugly of my cleaning this year. This is what it looks like when you dump thirty years' worth of stashed fabric on the floor -- and oy, what a pain in the butt to pick up again! This is what it looks like after it's been sorted, folded and placed in containers, which took me about a week. Now the hard part is to downsize my stash by at least half, I think (that's my goal, anyway.) I've already e-mailed the president of the local quilting guild, a local friend who is a quilter, and a public school art teacher I know to see if I can donate some of the excess to them. The rest will go to Goodwill. Already I've reduced my vintage textiles from two bins to one, and my scraps from three bins to one. It's probably the hardest clean-out I've done, which is why I saved it until last. I know I have too much fabric, more than I can use in my lifetime -- but at the same time, I love it. So I have to...

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