tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670213486548123819.post4161286726273899583..comments2024-03-24T21:42:17.025-04:00Comments on Loose Threads: <small>Yet Another Costuming Blog</small>: Starting OverCathy Raymondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670213486548123819.post-72756986714689682042016-09-11T21:49:29.311-04:002016-09-11T21:49:29.311-04:00This wasn't 50 cents a skein, it was more like...This wasn't 50 cents a skein, it was more like $2.70 a skein, but still a good price. <br /><br />And anyway, I'm looking for basic 100% wool, not cashmere or alpaca. The Vikings didn't have alpaca or cashmere. :-)Cathy Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670213486548123819.post-18704655056398546642016-09-11T21:15:06.403-04:002016-09-11T21:15:06.403-04:00"that was on sale cheap at an on-line yarn st..."that was on sale cheap at an on-line yarn store, and couldn't resist getting some...."<br /><br />In 2008, friends of mine and I drove down to Illinois for an estate sale. Beautiful Victorian house, three stories. The woman who'd lived in it lived in four rooms on the first floor. With two rooms in addition for her craft projects.<br /><br />Every room on the second and third floor was filled with shelved and cataloged yarn. My friends were ecstatic, because apparently there was cashmere and alpaca and other Very Good Stuff. And it was all being liquidated by the estate sale company at 50 cents per skein.<br /><br />I suggested that it might be cheaper -- even at 50 cents a skein -- to just make an offer on the house and all its contents...<br /><br /><br />They weren't really going to drop me off at a Greyhound Station to have more volume in their Prius to drive back.<br /><br />I think.Ken Burnsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18176106060717632571noreply@blogger.com