Back when I was making the items for the First Nations cold weather clothing drive, I asked on Freecycle for yarn donations. I got none. As I was finishing up the items, my mother-in-law phoned me to let me know her friend was giving away a lot of yarn and fabric and did I want any? Uh, how can I say no? I hate to see orphaned yarn! Some of it was odd balls, and some of it was multiple balls of a particular yarn. There was quite a bit, in four colours, of Sear's "Giselle", a bulky mohair blend, for example. All together, there was 4628grams! Then, on Sunday, in exchange for completing a pair of baby booties for another of my mother-in-law's friends, I received 192gr of yarn.
I decided to keep my donated yarn totals separate from what I've bought. Although it might get tricky when trying to figure yarn out amounts if an item was part my stash, part donated.
This morning I went to Value Village. I passed by the yarn section and got some great purchases:
LionBrand Homespun 323 gr $2.99
Mary Maxim Royale 165gr $3.99
Bouquet "Cindy" 261gr $3.99
Total In 749gr $12.40 inc HST
Year Total In 4114gr $123.46
I have a couple things to show that will bring the total out down.
Donate to Adriana 50gr from donated yarn and 72gr from stash
Donate to Kim 587gr from donated yarn and 111gr from stash
Afghan 679gr
Swatches 125gr
Total Out from Donated Yarn: 637gr
Total Out from Stash 876gr
Year Out Total (from Stash) 4657gr
Year Balance -543gr used, more than bought (year in minus total out)
Year In Donated 4820gr
Year Balance 4183gr
$123.46/50 days equal $2.47 per day which is slightly less than my calculation on Feb 8
I have another bag of Bouquet Cindy in the same colour, different dye lot--300gr, and the Value Village tag is still on--$4.99 I wonder how they price their yarns! Look at that Homespun price!
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