Yard Sales Rock!
Sep. 26th, 2009 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamflowerToday is the fall city-wide yard sale here. Basically, lots of people in town holding yard sales on the same day, and no permit required. We toyed with having one ourselves, but since the DH had a seminar this weekend, I decided it would be too much work for me on my own.
Instead, I took a few bucks and cruised the yard sales myself.
For $6.50, I got several really nice Christmas and Halloween decorations at one house. .25 bought me a goblet-shaped wooden pencil holder that will work great with my calligraphy pens.
But-- my most awesome score: at one house a lady was obviously a crafter, and I was tempted by a number of items-- but found a knitting tote bag, cute little canvas bag with a kitten playing with a ball of yarn printed on the front, and it was filled with knitting needles. She only wanted $5 for all of it!!!
Inventory behind the cut, for those who are interested:
14 circular needles in various sizes and lengths, including size 1! (Some were still in their packages, others I will have to use my needle sizer on, to see what sizes they are.)
13" straight needles (mixed plastic and aluminum):
2 pr. size 2
1 pr. size 3
3 pr. size 4
2 pr. size 6
2 pr. size 7
2 pr. size 10, plus a single plastic size 10 and a single aluminum size 10
10" straight needles:
1 pr. size 1
2 pr. size 2
2 pr. size 3 (actually, they are four different colors, but they are all aluminum and all the same brand, so they count as pairs.) ; )
5 pr. size 4 (4 aluminum, 1 plastic)
3 pr. size 6
2 pr. size 7
1 pr. size 8
4 pr. size 9
a single size 10
8" straight needles:
1 pr. size 1
Double pointed needles:
1 set size 1
2 sets size 2
2 sets size 3
1 set size 4
1 set size 6
2 steel double-pointed needles that I will have to check, but which are probably size 1 or 2.
And a small zip-lock bag full of markers and point protectors.
Approximately 2/3 of a cone of Sugar 'n' Cream cotton, in variegated yellow/white.
Buying all of these new, individually at today's prices would have been well over a hundred dollars! Plus which, finding the smaller needles-- sizes 1 and 2-- is really hard locally.
Of course, I already had some of the more common sized needles-- 6, 7, 9, 10, and a couple of circulars and smaller sized bamboo needles, but wow!
Now I have to figure out what to knit. Any fellow knitters familiar with the slip-stitch method of color changes? I have a book from the library, and it looks much easier than either intarsia or the usual method of carrying the yarn behind. But I haven't actually tried it out yet. Maybe I'll start a scarf...
Instead, I took a few bucks and cruised the yard sales myself.
For $6.50, I got several really nice Christmas and Halloween decorations at one house. .25 bought me a goblet-shaped wooden pencil holder that will work great with my calligraphy pens.
But-- my most awesome score: at one house a lady was obviously a crafter, and I was tempted by a number of items-- but found a knitting tote bag, cute little canvas bag with a kitten playing with a ball of yarn printed on the front, and it was filled with knitting needles. She only wanted $5 for all of it!!!
Inventory behind the cut, for those who are interested:
14 circular needles in various sizes and lengths, including size 1! (Some were still in their packages, others I will have to use my needle sizer on, to see what sizes they are.)
13" straight needles (mixed plastic and aluminum):
2 pr. size 2
1 pr. size 3
3 pr. size 4
2 pr. size 6
2 pr. size 7
2 pr. size 10, plus a single plastic size 10 and a single aluminum size 10
10" straight needles:
1 pr. size 1
2 pr. size 2
2 pr. size 3 (actually, they are four different colors, but they are all aluminum and all the same brand, so they count as pairs.) ; )
5 pr. size 4 (4 aluminum, 1 plastic)
3 pr. size 6
2 pr. size 7
1 pr. size 8
4 pr. size 9
a single size 10
8" straight needles:
1 pr. size 1
Double pointed needles:
1 set size 1
2 sets size 2
2 sets size 3
1 set size 4
1 set size 6
2 steel double-pointed needles that I will have to check, but which are probably size 1 or 2.
And a small zip-lock bag full of markers and point protectors.
Approximately 2/3 of a cone of Sugar 'n' Cream cotton, in variegated yellow/white.
Buying all of these new, individually at today's prices would have been well over a hundred dollars! Plus which, finding the smaller needles-- sizes 1 and 2-- is really hard locally.
Of course, I already had some of the more common sized needles-- 6, 7, 9, 10, and a couple of circulars and smaller sized bamboo needles, but wow!
Now I have to figure out what to knit. Any fellow knitters familiar with the slip-stitch method of color changes? I have a book from the library, and it looks much easier than either intarsia or the usual method of carrying the yarn behind. But I haven't actually tried it out yet. Maybe I'll start a scarf...