my first trip into a yarn shop....

On Mar 10, 6:11�pm, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)"
wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 04:10:18 -0800 (PST), betsey
wrote:

Now, understand, my tastes run towards the cottons and the wools...so
this whole novelty yarn purchase was a shock to me g I also bought a
debbie bliss book for alpaca silk..just some gorgous sweaters in
there. �but, on my goodness, the cost of her yarn!! �i'm making the
grand assumption that at least my first foray into that i can use a
cheaper yarn....correct? �can anyone suggest a good substitute???

Elann just had Debby Bliss Alpaca silk for about $4.50 a ball in ten
or twelve colors. �I bought twenty balls (five balls each of four
colors) when it first went on sale on the morning of Tuesday, 4 March.
They were down to fourteen balls of just one color by Thursday
morning. �I haven't looked again because I'm sure they're completely
out by now.

Elann's going to have a nice selection of Zen on sale the fourth
Tuesday of March; I'm waiting for that one, to buy yarn for summer
tees for my god-daughter.

Mary "The good stuff goes fast"
--
Mary Shafer � Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
or
Visit my blog athttp://thedigitalknitter.blogspot.com/� �

mary-

thank you for the tip! (and my maiden name was schafer....)

betsey

betsey wrote:
On Mar 10, 6:11�pm, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)"
wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 04:10:18 -0800 (PST), betsey
wrote:

Now, understand, my tastes run towards the cottons and the wools...so
this whole novelty yarn purchase was a shock to me g I also bought a
debbie bliss book for alpaca silk..just some gorgous sweaters in
there. �but, on my goodness, the cost of her yarn!! �i'm making the
grand assumption that at least my first foray into that i can use a
cheaper yarn....correct? �can anyone suggest a good substitute???
Elann just had Debby Bliss Alpaca silk for about $4.50 a ball in ten
or twelve colors. �I bought twenty balls (five balls each of four
colors) when it first went on sale on the morning of Tuesday, 4 March.
They were down to fourteen balls of just one color by Thursday
morning. �I haven't looked again because I'm sure they're completely
out by now.

Elann's going to have a nice selection of Zen on sale the fourth
Tuesday of March; I'm waiting for that one, to buy yarn for summer
tees for my god-daughter.

Mary "The good stuff goes fast"
--
Mary Shafer � Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
or
Visit my blog athttp://thedigitalknitter.blogspot.com/� �

mary-

thank you for the tip! (and my maiden name was schafer....)

So's mine, but spelled differently.

sue

On Mar 10, 11:01Â*pm, suzee wrote:
betsey wrote:
On Mar 10, 6:11�pm, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)"
wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 04:10:18 -0800 (PST), betsey
wrote:

Now, understand, my tastes run towards the cottons and the wools...so
this whole novelty yarn purchase was a shock to me g I also bought a
debbie bliss book for alpaca silk..just some gorgous sweaters in
there. �but, on my goodness, the cost of her yarn!! �i'm making the
grand assumption that at least my first foray into that i can use a
cheaper yarn....correct? �can anyone suggest a good substitute???
Elann just had Debby Bliss Alpaca silk for about $4.50 a ball in ten
or twelve colors. �I bought twenty balls (five balls each of four
colors) when it first went on sale on the morning of Tuesday, 4 March.
They were down to fourteen balls of just one color by Thursday
morning. �I haven't looked again because I'm sure they're completely
out by now.

Elann's going to have a nice selection of Zen on sale the fourth
Tuesday of March; I'm waiting for that one, to buy yarn for summer
tees for my god-daughter.

Mary "The good stuff goes fast"
--
Mary Shafer � Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
or
Visit my blog athttp://thedigitalknitter.blogspot.com/��

mary-

thank you for the tip! Â*(and my maiden name was schafer....)

So's mine, but spelled differently.

sue- Hide quoted text -

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it's a good name grin

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:46:37 -0700 (PDT), betsey
wrote:

On Mar 10, 11:01*pm, suzee wrote:
betsey wrote:
On Mar 10, 6:11?pm, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)"
wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 04:10:18 -0800 (PST), betsey
wrote:

Now, understand, my tastes run towards the cottons and the wools...so
this whole novelty yarn purchase was a shock to me g I also bought a
debbie bliss book for alpaca silk..just some gorgous sweaters in
there. ?but, on my goodness, the cost of her yarn!! ?i'm making the
grand assumption that at least my first foray into that i can use a
cheaper yarn....correct? ?can anyone suggest a good substitute???
Elann just had Debby Bliss Alpaca silk for about $4.50 a ball in ten
or twelve colors. ?I bought twenty balls (five balls each of four
colors) when it first went on sale on the morning of Tuesday, 4 March.
They were down to fourteen balls of just one color by Thursday
morning. ?I haven't looked again because I'm sure they're completely
out by now.

Elann's going to have a nice selection of Zen on sale the fourth
Tuesday of March; I'm waiting for that one, to buy yarn for summer
tees for my god-daughter.

Mary "The good stuff goes fast"
--
Mary Shafer ? Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
or
Visit my blog athttp://thedigitalknitter.blogspot.com/??

mary-

thank you for the tip! *(and my maiden name was schafer....)

So's mine, but spelled differently.

sue- Hide quoted text -

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it's a good name grin

Obviously I'm from the laziest branch, because we shortened it as much
as possible to save time writing it.

Mary "Frugal, too, as we saved ink"
--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
or
Visit my blog at http://thedigitalknitter.blogspot.com/

Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer) wrote:
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:46:37 -0700 (PDT), betsey
wrote:

On Mar 10, 11:01 pm, suzee wrote:
betsey wrote:
On Mar 10, 6:11?pm, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)"
wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 04:10:18 -0800 (PST), betsey
wrote:
Now, understand, my tastes run towards the cottons and the wools...so
this whole novelty yarn purchase was a shock to me g I also bought a
debbie bliss book for alpaca silk..just some gorgous sweaters in
there. ?but, on my goodness, the cost of her yarn!! ?i'm making the
grand assumption that at least my first foray into that i can use a
cheaper yarn....correct? ?can anyone suggest a good substitute???
Elann just had Debby Bliss Alpaca silk for about $4.50 a ball in ten
or twelve colors. ?I bought twenty balls (five balls each of four
colors) when it first went on sale on the morning of Tuesday, 4 March.
They were down to fourteen balls of just one color by Thursday
morning. ?I haven't looked again because I'm sure they're completely
out by now.
Elann's going to have a nice selection of Zen on sale the fourth
Tuesday of March; I'm waiting for that one, to buy yarn for summer
tees for my god-daughter.
Mary "The good stuff goes fast"
--
Mary Shafer ? Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
or
Visit my blog athttp://thedigitalknitter.blogspot.com/??
mary-
thank you for the tip! (and my maiden name was schafer....)
So's mine, but spelled differently.

sue- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -
it's a good name grin

Obviously I'm from the laziest branch, because we shortened it as much
as possible to save time writing it.

Mary "Frugal, too, as we saved ink"

Mine has `ae' in it, so it's as close to an umalauted a (ä) as you can
get without dots.

sue