Dollar store discovery

[Afghaniac]

Check out the Dollar Tree in your area.

 

Yesterday, during a fruitless search for inexpensive scrapbook papers to start learning iris folding, I stumbled on to a cart of unshelved new yarns and picked up four skeins of Caron Bliss in a gorgeous periwinkle shade at -- of course -- a dollar a skein. There were other yarns, but that luscious yarn leaped out of the cart at me. I don't know what I'll do with it, except maybe yet another ruffled scarf. Or, maybe I'll finally break in the jumbo knitting needles I bought recently and try to revive my long-lost knitting skills with a standard long, skinny scarf.

[~Kel~]

lately all my dollar tree has carried is Fun Fur though last summer I managed to walk out with almost 20 balls of LB Incredible at a $1 each, it was wonderful

[Arlinka]

I picked up fun fur over the Christmas season, but nothing has been there since. I asked the manager about it and she said they never know what will come in or when. Also she said it is not a usual thing to get shipments of any yarns.

You hit it lucky !!!!! Congrats.

[Elle]

Our Dollar Tree almost always has yarn, but it's usually either Lion Brand Fun Fur or Lion Brand Incredible. I bought 18 rolls of the Incredible (9 in blues and 9 in Autumn Leaves) about a year and a half ago and am just now getting around to making a shrug out of the Autumn Leaves. I wish they would carry regular knitting worsted weight yarn, but it doesn't look like it ever happens. And the Fun Fur is always so messed around with that it's in a huge, furry tangle in the bin, so I've never bothered to buy any of that from them. If I ever get there and the shipment has just been put out and peoples' kids haven't gotten to it yet I'll probably pick up a few skeins to use for amigurumi, but other than that, I don't usually buy eyelash yarns any more. They're too difficult to work with.

[breeze530]

Our store only carries Fun Fur. I wish they'd get some of the Incredible. I've never tried it.

[Afghaniac]

Re fun fur: I think it's fading away -- finally! The Caron Bliss I bought is not exactly fun fur -- it's much more substantial.

 

And, yes, you do have to get there as soon as they put it out -- the good stuff flies off the shelf. It's all luck.