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I had to go to the local small town this morning for an appointment. On the way back to the car I called into the (very tiny) Sally Anna's (Salvation Army) charity sales and coffee shop.
The charity shop side is about as big as a large lounge in an ordinary house, but right inside the door was one of those flexible/springloaded type laundry baskets - containing 10 cones of knitting wool in mostly quite nice colours. There was also one of those wire wastepaper baskets full of odds and ends of knitting yarn. The cones were priced at 50p each and the odds and ends at 10p each!!!!!! Couldn't believe it as usually anything like that is snapped up straight away. They totted it up and said I could have it all for £5.50. So, I bought the lot plus a skirt for me, some hankies for OH (who refuses to use tissues) and a bag of Christmas baubles - all for £8.60.
I make loads of stuff out of this sort of yarn and thread then sell it to raise money for local charities, so I can now make shawls, scarves, bags, hats, pet blankets, stuffed toys and goodness knows what and most of the money I take on the sales will go to charity.
The baubles I can use as the inside of some crocheted decorations for which I found a pattern recently. They'll be going on the stall next year when I do Christmas fairs.
Keeps me happy and occupied without costing me a fortune in materials and tools.
Linda
The charity shop side is about as big as a large lounge in an ordinary house, but right inside the door was one of those flexible/springloaded type laundry baskets - containing 10 cones of knitting wool in mostly quite nice colours. There was also one of those wire wastepaper baskets full of odds and ends of knitting yarn. The cones were priced at 50p each and the odds and ends at 10p each!!!!!! Couldn't believe it as usually anything like that is snapped up straight away. They totted it up and said I could have it all for £5.50. So, I bought the lot plus a skirt for me, some hankies for OH (who refuses to use tissues) and a bag of Christmas baubles - all for £8.60.
I make loads of stuff out of this sort of yarn and thread then sell it to raise money for local charities, so I can now make shawls, scarves, bags, hats, pet blankets, stuffed toys and goodness knows what and most of the money I take on the sales will go to charity.
The baubles I can use as the inside of some crocheted decorations for which I found a pattern recently. They'll be going on the stall next year when I do Christmas fairs.
Keeps me happy and occupied without costing me a fortune in materials and tools.
Linda
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