More Destash Goodies

I've listed more yarn in The Great 2014 Destashing... all eBay auctions, all free shipping to US addresses... Click here, and then on Other Items to see the rest. I'll be listing more as I dig through more boxes (I'm nowhere near to running out yet)... Thanks for looking, share if you like...

Here are some of the available yarns (available as of Saturday morning- they're selling fairly briskly):

 (except for the above dark green- no one seems to want poor Holly... I have no idea why. The other colors of the Rowanspun 4ply are finding their way to new homes at a steady clip.)

Destash Sale!

I've mentioned, here and there, that I am on a Yarn Moratorium, that I will buy (almost) no new yarn until I use up a significant portion of that which I have on hand. It's been about 3 years and I've stuck to that vow pretty well, and... the yarn levels have barely changed. So I decided to speed things up a bit.

Over the next several weeks, I'll be listing yarn lots for sale on eBay. Most of them will be Buy-it-Now, and most will have free shipping, and most will be listed for US bidders only (though if you see one you really want and you're out of the US, let me know- shipping will be extra).

I listed 17 auctions for discontinued Rowanspun 4 ply yarn yesterday, in 17 different colors, lots varying from 11 skeins, to 1, each can be purchased individually or in lots of whatever number you like. Within an hour, 9 of the colors had sold out. But that means there are still many available, including these (at the time of uploading this post, the auctions were all still up and running):

Multiple skeins of each color are listed. At one time, I thought I would put up kits with my original patterns. That never happened. It's lovely lovely lovely yarn, but I simply will not use it.

Here's a link to one of the auctions, and from there you can see the rest. Or you can search out my username: kmtayloratnvcnet    (if that confuses you, it's an old e-mail address).

Thanks for looking, and I promise not to do this too often.

Those Darn Gloves

I searched the blog archives, and the earliest mention of these gloves was from  way back in September, 2007,

I've worn them every winter, and they've traveled with me on every cold-weather trip since then. Last week, I noticed that my thumb felt a little chilly...

I inspected the rest of the gloves and found a couple more weak areas,

including a couple of the finger tips.

I still have a lot of the Rowanspun 4ply discontinued yarn that the gloves were made with, but none of the light green. I decided to reinforce the weak spots with a darker green (mostly because it was already wound into a ball). I knew it would show, but really, a darned spot is a badge of honor- proof that the gloves have been worn and loved.

For the most part, I just re-tightened the tips, and duplicate stitched the weak spots.

It's a textured yarn, with nubblies, so the surface isn't totally smooth.

Voila! Good for another six or seven winters!