The Yarn Shop Adventure

Late last week, I was reading the blog of one of ladies in my knitting/spinning group. She mentioned a yarn store in Mount Dora that was recently sold and is selling off the existing stock at crazy prices. Well, seeing as how I have YAS (see previous entry), I couldn’t resist the urge to go. My DH and I made the short drive to Mount Dora. Traffic was pretty bad, so I jumped out of the truck while we stopped at a red light because I was so excited, I couldn’t wait for DH to find a parking space…

When I walked into the store, I felt like I had achieved nirvana! There were two dollar skeins….There were one dollar skeins…There were fifty cents skeins…. Beautiful yarn! Glorious yarn! Magnificent yarn! We are not talking about the every day, run of the mill yarns you can find in any craft store. Acrylics, acrylic blends, cotton, cotton/linen blends, linen, wool, wool blends…you name it, it is probably somewhere in the store or somewhere in stock that the new owners have yet to bring back into the store.

Anyway, after rummaging around for about an hour, I ended up spending about $55 for 70 skeins of yarn! My DH was, of course, somewhat put out when I appeared on the sidewalk with two large bags stuffed full of yarn. However, when he heard how much (or how little) I spent, he was a little less cranky.

Well, we decided to walk around Mount Dora for a bit. We happened upon a wine shop just a couple of doors down from the yarn shop. There was a sign out front saying the shop was going out of business, soall wine was 25% off…As I was in such a wonderful mood from my yarn shopping, I ventured into the wine shop. DH rolled his eyes and kept walking. The shop proprietor was a very nice gentleman and offered small tastings of all of the wines in the shop. I tried several – cherry, strawberry, pineapple/coconut, cranberry, etc…I bought a bottle of orange wine, pineapple/coconut wine and two bottles of watermelon wine (one for a good friend at the office). While I ended up with 70 skeins of yarn and four bottles of wine, DH ended up with a POUND of fudge. All in all, we had a great day.

When we got home, I started thinking, which is generally an expensive thing, about letting the opportunity of fifty cents for a skein of yarn pass me by. I just knew it was too good not to go back. I put on my best face, batted my eyelashes and, gently, asked DH if we could back on Sunday. To my surprise, he readily agreed. So at noon, I was there. Again, I rummaged for about an hour. I ended up with four large shopping bags full and only spent $80. After all was said and done, here is what I ended up with:

Filatura di Crosa – Amico – 43 skeins
Reynolds – Gypsy – 19 skeins
Crystal Palace – Trade Winds – 11 skeins
Crystal Palace – Baby Georgia – 42 skeins
Wendy – Cotton with linen – 8 skeins
Marks & Kattens – Camomille – 8 skeins
Elite – 5 skeins
Linie10 – 6 skeins
Mandarin – Petit – 7 skeins
Jakobsdals - Bahamas – 6 skeins
Novita – Linnea – 18 skeins
Katia – Ancla – 13 skeins