I Hit the Jackpot Today at Goodwill!!!

[Mom w/a Motif]

Today we went in to the Goodwill to look for some jeans for our three year old. I thought I'd check out the bins to see if they had a skein or two of yarn-- HOLY COW!!! They had five or six bags of yarn, with a lot of skeins in them all the same colors. This is all the yarn I got for less than $7!!!!! :clap

 

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17 6/7 oz. balls of 'Robin' (manufactured in Bradford, England) a baby blue w/ a silver thread:

 

 

8 50 grm balls of 'Rio' (made in western Germany), kind of like a boucle' ?; also in a baby blue:

 

 

6 50 grm balls of 'Brasil', also by Stahl Wolle, made in Germany (Like the 'Rio'), white:

 

 

And, two and a half balls w/ no wrapper, pink:

 

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Does anyone know if you can use nylon to make baby sweaters? It says 65% Tricel, 28% Bri-nylon, 7% Lurex. They look like older balls of yarn, maybe discontinued even. I guess I'll find uses for them all, I just couldn't pass it up at that price!!

Tina

[Hello Again]

Nice! Is there any better feeling than a good bargain? I haven't noticed any yarn at my goodwill but now I will keep my eyes open!

[funkyreporter]

All right!!!!!!!!! I LOVE a good bargain at the thrift store! Makes me want to run out right now and poke around, see what they've got. And how cool that there were multiple skeins of the same colors... and pretty colors too!!!!

 

SCORE:woo

[Mom w/a Motif]

I have been in there about five times now, and they usually don't have anything; but maybe a skein of rug yarn, or a half skein of baby yarn. But, I will definitely keep my eyes open now after today!! I am on . I always read about people finding good deals, but never find any myself. Then, after that I went to Hobby Lobby and they had all their candy making supplies (Wilton) half off so I got a bunch of stuff there too for hardly any money!!

 

Tina

[lizc]

that's great!

[Hello Again]

Now that I see the yarn up close, I'm even more jealous! The blue w/ metallic yarn looks pretty!

[moonspinners]

wow! you hit the motherlode! lucky you. I wonder if I could be so lucky.

[Twinnish]

Aw, you are so lucky! All I ever find is Red Heart SS or ancient super scratchy acrylic stuff from the seventies in harvest gold and avocado.

[saramae74]

Awww... I'm so jealous!! What a find! I went to my local Goodwill today, the only crochet item I found was McCalls pattern book circa 1975 and some equally old knitting patterns. Oh well, I'll keep looking!! I'm really anxious to recycle some old sweaters.

[vernzap]

Nice find!

[Colyak Crocheter]

I just love it when I find buys like that! Very nice! Good timing!

[grrlsmom]

Lucky! Makes me wanna go dig through bins. I love getting treasures like that.

[Hummywinger]

Wow great deal.

Have fun

 

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[Empress Busy Bee]

Great find!

I never remember to go look.

[yarncat]

Awesome,Tina!I wouldn't be surprised if that yarn isn't close to $7 a skein brand-new!

[head2toepets2go]

wow - what a great deal!

 

 

From time to time I've found the 1lb bags of "unknown fibre content" for about half the price they are at Wal-Mart. Last time I got an entire shopping cart full and the cashier told me that the lady who sorts the donations was VERY excited to get yarn in, even tho she doesn't knit or crochet herself. If you ask the people who work at the thrift stores, they will often "check in the back" to see if there's more waiting to be put out.

I also managed to fill the back of my husband's mini-van with 1lb balls of RH Supersaver lemony-yellow yarn once from a liquidation place for $2.99 a ball. And YES I am still tyring ot use it all up lol

 

Congratulations on your great find.

 

Fran

[kareni]

Good job! That's a lot of yarn for $7!!

[crochetdiva]

OOOOHHH! I am so jealous!! Great find! All of it is gorgeous!!! Way to Go!!

[andiM]

Good score!