I've run ahead of myself by a couple of days with pre-published posts so I'm back to posting twice a day until I use up the extras. My yarn plus lot arrived, so let's take a look and see if it was worth what I paid for it.
24 skeins of yarn, 21 of which are new and most are labelled, along with a brand-new sewing kit.
The kit has never been used or even opened, I think, and it retails for $20.00. I can use basically everything in the kit. The scissors are really sharp, and since my own fabric scissors are dull these will help me out until I can get mine sharpened.
Ten Italian Berlini Chelsea wool skeins, also brand new. These are more like a boucle, but very soft with a luxurious hand. I bet they work up nice. As they're discontinued I couldn't find a price for these online but comparable yarns by this manufacturer run $16 to $17 a skein.
I've heard not so great things about the Pioneer Woman's acrylic yarn from a Youtube crochet video, but it seems softer than Red Heart and it's a pretty color. I can work with it.
There are five other balls of expensive-looking yarn, four lighter blue in a boucle similar to the Berlini, and one blue with silver metallic threading. All unused.
Finally there were these three partial skeins, which had no labels. The fingering weight green boucle seems expensive.
I think the full skeins would definitely retail for $5.00 each at the minimum, and I'll add in $3.00 for the partials. Toss in the $20.00 sewing kit and the lot's value totals $128.00. I paid $10.99 for everything. Savings: $117.01. Thrift your yarn, my friends.
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