That is cute as heck.
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Baby, father and mother potato. Pretend you like them. 
They’re adorable!
I tried my real yarn yesterday and started another blanket
For my blanket, I’m using Big Twist Magenta and white. 150 stitches wide and 90 rows with a 4.5mm hook. I’m just using SC. I will try fancy stitches on the next project 
The soft yarn that I showed a few days ago was bought for today’s knitting and crocheting class. I don’t think I will be using it though.
I am supposed to be learning the granny Square today. As easy as some people say it is, I am simply not going to say that.
I am supposed to be learning the granny Square today. As easy as some people say it is, I am simply not going to say that.
I love these. I get a few every Christmas from someone who buys them from someone else. I cherish them. Whoever makes them, they look like flowers, but I wouldn't care if they looked like
, they work great!
I had not heard of him! He’s awesome!
This is such a newbie question! I love it!(Apologies to @SemiSweet2391 who is probably the only person I know who just does projects one at a time in a row.
)I love them!
Oh my goodness you guys I haven’t been on BYC in a while because Joann closing turned me into a yarn addict! All my Internet time has been spent searching patterns and shopping for yarn deals.
(That’s the TLDR version. Feel free to skip the long post. I’m so sorry!)
At first I didn’t bother to check out Joann’s closing because 25% off yarn is the same sale price they always had. Which I never thought was very good because their prices were more than 25% overpriced. Plus I figured it would be all picked over with nothing good left. I was wrong!
I finally went on a Monday once yarn was at 30% off. Turns out my local store was the one where they were emptying the warehouses out to. And also things from other stores that were getting closed early on. Yarn aisles were stuffed and where sewing machines used to be was now rows and rows of yarn boxes on the floor. I made two major mistakes that day.
One was finding a knit blanket pattern on the label of a yarn that really appealed to me. Now, I’ve said before that I don’t knit. I even tried again in 2024 and it was too frustrating and I quit. Well, I liked this blanket, so I made a spot decision to try to learn again, and I bought all the yarn the pattern called for as well as some practice knitting needles. (Because they were sold out of the kind the pattern required.) I also made the spot decision to take a knitting class. So, ever since then, half of my spare time has been spent learning to knit and practicing knitting. So that was mistake no. 1.
Mistake number two was spending about $100 on yarn that day. Because come Thursday of that week, I got an email that Joann’s was marking yarn down to 40% off! What?!!
I immediately googled if there were other locations close enough that I could drive around and check the stock at other stores. There was one other about as far southwest of me as my normal one was southeast of me. So I drove first to the west one (super picked over and about to be closed) and then back to my regular one. I think I spent about $150 in each store.
My rationale was that it was better to buy what I liked at 40% off instead of waiting for 50 or 60 because what I liked might not still be there later. And 40% off was pretty darn good. I told myself that I would limit my total (lol) and then if there was still stuff I wanted, I would wait and see if it was still available at 50% off. And 60, and 70 and 80. You get the picture.
So I kept checking the website and the next Wednesday it was 50% off so I went in as soon as they opened and bought more yarn. The manager told me that the sale week always started on Wednesdays, so I just started getting there each Wednesday right before 9am. The following week they said they thought it was supposed to change to 60%, but they hadn’t gotten an email notification so they didn’t change their signage. However! When the first customer bought some yarn, the cashier found out that it rang up at 60% off! (And checking the website prices revealed the same thing.) So I proceeded to blow another large wad of cash that day. (Things were still very stocked up!)
Ok, sorry this is so long. I need to get to the part where I get addicted to yarn shopping. So, I’m making all these trips to the store. And for each yarn I think I want, I’m searching for patterns on my phone, because I need to know how much and what colors to buy, right? (I am mostly a blanket and scarf maker.) So I keep finding all these neat blanket patterns. Some for the yarns in front of me, and some for yarns that JOANN DOESN’T HAVE!! That leads to internet yarn shopping. And discovering all the yarn websites I didn’t know existed. (Hobbii anyone?) And then I’m signing up for email and text alerts to everywhere under the sun to get 15% discounts on all my first orders. And then I’m becoming an expert at where I can find the cheapest price for all the different yarns. And there goes the second half of my free time!
Meanwhile all my yarn stashing areas are getting overstuffed. So I decide to clean out my basement storage shelves and make room for new storage bins for yarn. (Yay! Cleaner basement with less (non-yarn) junk! Boo! Many tubs of yarn taking up lots of the shelves!) And Joann finally closes, but not before I have gleaned every yarn that I can justify to myself wanting or having a use for. (At 70%. I didn’t even go back at 90% because I already knew I didn’t want what little was left by then.)
Firmly addicted to yarn shopping by now, it’s ok that there is no more Joann. Because I’ve discovered Michaels and Hobby Lobby! If you’re patient, their 30% off all yarn sales roll around every 2-3 weeks. Hobby Lobby pretty much only carries their own store brand, but that’s ok because their prices are relatively cheaper, and with 30% off, they are great! And they have some really nice yarn!
So. Now you can see that I truly have become addicted to yarn. Buying it, planning projects for it, rearranging it, thinking about it, writing long posts about it. Even working with it. My tubs are full. No more shopping until I get some of these projects finished. Man! I need to go out and do some non-yarn jobs! The chickens need feeding! Egg customer is coming today! I’ll probably stop by here again in another month or two!
(That’s the TLDR version. Feel free to skip the long post. I’m so sorry!)
At first I didn’t bother to check out Joann’s closing because 25% off yarn is the same sale price they always had. Which I never thought was very good because their prices were more than 25% overpriced. Plus I figured it would be all picked over with nothing good left. I was wrong!
I finally went on a Monday once yarn was at 30% off. Turns out my local store was the one where they were emptying the warehouses out to. And also things from other stores that were getting closed early on. Yarn aisles were stuffed and where sewing machines used to be was now rows and rows of yarn boxes on the floor. I made two major mistakes that day.
One was finding a knit blanket pattern on the label of a yarn that really appealed to me. Now, I’ve said before that I don’t knit. I even tried again in 2024 and it was too frustrating and I quit. Well, I liked this blanket, so I made a spot decision to try to learn again, and I bought all the yarn the pattern called for as well as some practice knitting needles. (Because they were sold out of the kind the pattern required.) I also made the spot decision to take a knitting class. So, ever since then, half of my spare time has been spent learning to knit and practicing knitting. So that was mistake no. 1.
Mistake number two was spending about $100 on yarn that day. Because come Thursday of that week, I got an email that Joann’s was marking yarn down to 40% off! What?!!
I immediately googled if there were other locations close enough that I could drive around and check the stock at other stores. There was one other about as far southwest of me as my normal one was southeast of me. So I drove first to the west one (super picked over and about to be closed) and then back to my regular one. I think I spent about $150 in each store. My rationale was that it was better to buy what I liked at 40% off instead of waiting for 50 or 60 because what I liked might not still be there later. And 40% off was pretty darn good. I told myself that I would limit my total (lol) and then if there was still stuff I wanted, I would wait and see if it was still available at 50% off. And 60, and 70 and 80. You get the picture.
So I kept checking the website and the next Wednesday it was 50% off so I went in as soon as they opened and bought more yarn. The manager told me that the sale week always started on Wednesdays, so I just started getting there each Wednesday right before 9am. The following week they said they thought it was supposed to change to 60%, but they hadn’t gotten an email notification so they didn’t change their signage. However! When the first customer bought some yarn, the cashier found out that it rang up at 60% off! (And checking the website prices revealed the same thing.) So I proceeded to blow another large wad of cash that day. (Things were still very stocked up!)
Ok, sorry this is so long. I need to get to the part where I get addicted to yarn shopping. So, I’m making all these trips to the store. And for each yarn I think I want, I’m searching for patterns on my phone, because I need to know how much and what colors to buy, right? (I am mostly a blanket and scarf maker.) So I keep finding all these neat blanket patterns. Some for the yarns in front of me, and some for yarns that JOANN DOESN’T HAVE!! That leads to internet yarn shopping. And discovering all the yarn websites I didn’t know existed. (Hobbii anyone?) And then I’m signing up for email and text alerts to everywhere under the sun to get 15% discounts on all my first orders. And then I’m becoming an expert at where I can find the cheapest price for all the different yarns. And there goes the second half of my free time!
Meanwhile all my yarn stashing areas are getting overstuffed. So I decide to clean out my basement storage shelves and make room for new storage bins for yarn. (Yay! Cleaner basement with less (non-yarn) junk! Boo! Many tubs of yarn taking up lots of the shelves!) And Joann finally closes, but not before I have gleaned every yarn that I can justify to myself wanting or having a use for. (At 70%. I didn’t even go back at 90% because I already knew I didn’t want what little was left by then.)
Firmly addicted to yarn shopping by now, it’s ok that there is no more Joann. Because I’ve discovered Michaels and Hobby Lobby! If you’re patient, their 30% off all yarn sales roll around every 2-3 weeks. Hobby Lobby pretty much only carries their own store brand, but that’s ok because their prices are relatively cheaper, and with 30% off, they are great! And they have some really nice yarn!
So. Now you can see that I truly have become addicted to yarn. Buying it, planning projects for it, rearranging it, thinking about it, writing long posts about it. Even working with it. My tubs are full. No more shopping until I get some of these projects finished. Man! I need to go out and do some non-yarn jobs! The chickens need feeding! Egg customer is coming today! I’ll probably stop by here again in another month or two!
SemiSweet2391
Songster
Haha it drives me nuts to have unfinished projects, so I just do one at a time to make sure everything gets finishedI had not heard of him! He’s awesome!
(Apologies to @SemiSweet2391 who is probably the only person I know who just does projects one at a time in a row.
I love them!
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