It's that closet clearing time of year: STASH SALE, part the first

I dunno if this will still work, since I don't write about knitting much anymore.  But tell your friends!  Yarn for sale!  And yarn stories!  There is Narrative: many of these have been with me for some time.  I love them many of them to the point where I keep trying to put them back in the closet. But it's time.  The cat needs dental work, the AC is busted and really, I have too much stuff, more yarn than I could knit in 20 years.

Just because it's beautiful doesn't mean it has to live here.

Unless specified, stored in plastic bag or bin in the yarn closet.  There is a cat on premises, thus there is probably cat hair on or near everything I own.  Flat shipping rate of $6 per box, buy more and save!  Paypal (you pay cc fee) or personal check.  Edited to ad:  contact through comments here or email to Juno [at] enchantingjuno [dot] com.  If you try on Rav I will not see it in time.

Also, there are 41 lots or something, so I'll do this over three two posts.  If you are looking for a travel wheel or a wheel bag, those are here.

SOLD 1) 3 Balls Adriafil Frou Frou for which I paid the absurd sum of 12.00 each in 2005  - yours for $20!

This was going to be fringe on a shawl made of item number two, which is a tragic tale.

2)  10 balls South West Trading Company Phoenix, color "chocolate" Retail $130.00, yours for $90.00 (as you can see, it's been ripped and rewound into balls of assorted size)

When I was a wee knitter, inexperienced and optimistic, I knit this into something designed for Rowan Summer Tweed, which is a yarn entirely unlike this one.  It had a v-neck , pretty slipped stitch edges and a cable up the front thus:  

  I knit it very tightly on addis and it was beautiful, as you can see.  It was also 1000 grams &  1700+ yards.  And a tank top. 

I put it on and, naturally,  the hem dropped to my knees, the armholes to my elbows and the v-neck to  well below my bra.  In the fullness of time, when the weeping ended, I ripped it out and intended to knit a loose simple shawl from the remains.  It is time, 6 years later, to admit that this will never happen.  And that a worsted weight 1700 yard shawl would cover the earth.

SOLD 3) Two balls of discontinued Debbie  Cashmerino Superchunky one intact, one wound into a ball. A gorgeous red.  Retail 40, yours for $30.00.  Many times, this was going to be a cowl.  Now it's your turn.

4) 2 balls Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino.  The yellow one in the picture was viciously mauled (see cat, yarn stored in a basket, the greater wisdom of experience) and tossed.  Retail $18.00, yours for $12.50.  The child for whom these were going to be baby booties is 4.  Ahem.

SOLD5) 2 skeins of Artyarns Silk Rhapsody in a delightful seafoam.  Purchased at Purl in New York on a fine sweaty summer yarn crawl.  Retail $88.00.  Yours for $70.00.  It's a gorgeous yarn but I could never think how I would wear a shawl out of this.  Apply some imagination to this pretty thing and be sure to send me a picture highlighting the failure of my creativity.

SOLD 6) One skein of Malabrigo Worsted in colorway Malilla, swatched and then rewound into a ball.  Purchased in Toronto at Lettuce Knit summer of 08.  It was going to be one of those fat yarn/kidsilk scribble lace scarves, except these are Not My Colors.  It was very hot that day.   $7.00

7) 4 400 yd skeins of merino tencel sock yarn from Mind's Eye in Boston, dyed Indigo (unclear on if that was an actual indigo dye or an indigo-toned dye).  Retail $80.00, yours for $60.00

Man, I really used to overestimate yarn quantites.  This was going to be a shawl.  Another one to blanket the earth, I think.  

SOLD 8) 1 skein plus a large ball of the most fabulous heavy worsted angora goat (Polly Anna) and wool (Claudia) blend boot sock yarn, artisan made, from the Mountain Fiber Folk in Vermont.  If I knit socks I would make these my inside-the-snowboot socks, with a silk liner (this is not soft sock yarn).  But I do not like making socks and so far, no one can be persuaded to do it for  me.  I feel regret,  it really is lovely.  But it's been in there since 2005? or 6.   No idea of retail.  A lot.  Yours for $30.00

SOLD 9) Save me from this cone.  Seriously.  It's 10000 yards of fingering weight 50 wool/50 alpaca.  2 pounds 6 ounces.  One of the very first things I bought when I discovered Yarn on the Internet in 2004.  You know what I know now that I did not know then? Alpaca makes me ITCH.  Hats are fine.  A sweater? Forget it.  But it's too nice to toss.

I wound off a large ball in a spirit of optimism once.  I will wind it ALL into balls for you.  I will double strand it into balls if you like, or triple.  Just somebody buy it.  Save me from the blue alpaca haunting.  $20.00

10)  A mass (9.25 ounces) of hard to describe cashmere boucle with a cotton binder.  I was going to do this very elaborate huge round lace shawl on 11 mm needles, which was a lunatic decision.  Because BOUCLE.  Kitten soft cashmere boucle.

If you buy it I'll leave the shawl beginnings intact for your amusement, if you like.  S suggested that it would be good woven and I think she's right.  But I do not have a loom.  So.  It's from Hunt Valley Cashmere at my first Maryland Sheep and Wool (which might as well read "from my first coke bender" not that I would do that.  But you know, CASHMERE, in the wild, is not that far off.)

It cost the earth.  Or about $113.00.  And it's yours for $90.00:

SOLD11) Trendsetter yarns Dali.  6 skeins, plus a little bit, worsted weight 100% cashmere in a really violent shade of red that is impossible to photograph.  I look good in red.  Except this red.  Especially with my new haircolor.  It is Not Good.  Yours for $60.00, which is a steal for nearly 1000 yards of cashmere, even if you have to dye it.  Which I recommend. Because as I mentioned, I do not like this red.

SOLD 12) Mad Angel Creations cashmere/wool laceweight in chestnut.  Lots and lots of laceweight, I think something like 8000 yards.  I am not the lace knitter I once thought I would be and it's really gorgeous and should be used.  This one has been in a cabinet rather than in a plastic pin.  $20

SOLD 13) 15 skeins GGH Via Mala.  This is a really interesting yarn, basically 4 strands of laceweight wool  held parallel and gently felted into a ribbon, sorta.  Light. Very bulky, but airy.  I always thought it would make a good sweater coat.  Not my color, as much as I would LIKE to be able to wear all purples successfully.  Retail $150, yours for $100

 SOLD 14) 5  2.5 fat skeins of merino/silk sportweight ordered from Ellen's Half Pint Farms at my first Rhinebeck.  I was drunk. Or something.   First of all, I ordered a double lot, so this totals 3350 yards.  Second of all  I ordered a variagated silvery/taupey/beige that is deeply pretty, delicate, glowing and exactly the same tone as my face in some weird way that makes me vanish when I hold it up and look in the mirror.  I paid, gods help me, $250 for it.  I will break this in half by weight, if that's of interest.  $180.00 for all, $90 for half  (1670ish yards remaining) (this was stored in the closet but I pulled it out this summer and it's been sitting in a bag on the coffee table, just fyi)

 

SOLD 15)  Merino Laceweight:  2 cones of very fine, very soft merino laceweight.  One is pale green (SOLD) and one is pale banana.  The banana has a broken couple of strands on the bottom outside of the cone, snagged I think.  They lived in the wall cupboard, I bought them on ebay a long time ago and I will never, ever knit fine soft lace like these demand.  15 bucks each.  Unknown yardage. 

Comments

[Cedar]

Thank god I am not the only person who finds alpaca scratchy. My hands do not find it scratchy. They find it lovely, and then I buy it, and knit with it, and attempt to wrap it around my neck and then the misery begins.

[Abby]

Ohhhh, if #13 is still available, I would like to dibs that please! I can totally wear that color purple, and I think it'll make a fantastic sweater coat.

[Jane in London]

Oooh, please may I have the cashmerino superchunky? And the malabrigo (I mean, since it's got to come to London anyhow). I can knit the boy a scarf with that, and a hat for me.

[Imbrium]

See? This is me resisting. I do love the stories though.

[Milissa]

I'd love to put in for #5 and # 11. I'm interested in # 14 (at least 1/2), but I'd really have to see it in person (which if it's still untaken by Sat. I could). Your description of skin tones make me wonder if I might have the same vanishing issue. Although, it could be like the capes in the Lord of the Rings!

[Martha]

The best part of this sale is the stories. The optimism of planning a giant shawl of cashmere boucle will keep me awestruck for days and give me hope for America's future. That's the sort of can-do attitude that we need more of! (I say this as a person who just finished a sweater and two scarves of boucle, so I can appreciate its special challenges).

[Amy]

Clearly a bunch of us are weavers. I'm in for 9, 12 and 15 too.

[Mel]

Foul temptress! Good thing those cones got snatched up. Especially seeing as we've got enough cones of alpaca yarns already to last forever.

[Iris]

Sending an email re: the blue alpaca and the chestnut laceweight. I am all over that.

[Michelle]

DIBS. DIBS. DIBS! On Nos. 9, 12, and the pale green lovely in No. 15.

You'll just have to come here to give it to me. :) Or I'll come there and grab it from you.