I’m going to steal Andi’s title since both our posts reflect the same thing — good mail days aka NEW YARN!!!!! Booyah!!!! 🙂
And before anyone asks about my cold-sheeping efforts, all the new acquisitions below were as a result of trades! Oh man! Trades are one of the best ways to enhance or change up a person’s stash without having to spend money (except for mailing the packages of course. 😛 ). So I’m still ON my sheep! 😛
First up:
I placed three skeins of my Madeline Tosh DK Twist in Neon Peach up for “Trade or Sale” on Ravelry and within ten minutes I was contacted by Betty. She wanted them all and was willing to trade two of her DK Twist in Rose Gold (first picture) and one skein of MadTosh 80/10/10 in Tidal Basin (second picture). The MadTosh junkie I am didn’t waste time … I agreed to the trade and got my goodies from Canada in record time. They were here by last Friday!!! Yummy! 😀
Next up are trades I made with my friend Erica. I had two afghan lots that I wasn’t using and she had some sock yarn mixed bags that she got from her MIL. Now that I’m turning into a sock junkie, I couldn’t say no to that so we worked out the trades. Now I gotta say — this chick is crazy!!!! 😀 When I trade, I like to consider the cost paid for the skeins in addition to the yardage. This nut, my friend, promised me that the trades were fair based on my criteria and I stupidly believed her. 🙄
On Friday, I get a call from Reception that I had two medium sized boxes downstairs. In the boxes were these:
This woman sent me Regia and Madeline Tosh sock yarn!!! In my mind, the trades weren’t even but her rationale — she got them free from her MIL so it’s more of a win for her than me. I disagree but I wasn’t going to argue with her! 😛 I can’t wait to work with these!!!!! Gotta love her!
I also got my roving for the quarter from indie dyer, Two If By Hand:
Although some events of the day weren’t so pleasant, Friday was a great mail day and I can’t wait to get started using these. I have another trade in progress — some of my Gloss Fingering for Kathleen’s Palette. She needed my fingering to finish a shawl for her BFFs birthday — I couldn’t say no that. Great BFFs are treasures but my thoughts on that are for another post. 😀
Hope you each had some awesome mail days recently. 😀