I felt like some shopping therapy today... But I wanted to keep the cost down, since May has been an awful month for sales. My first show of the month didn't go well, and it's been a month since I had a sale in my Etsy shop. So I figured I'd just swing by the Goodwill on my way to Walmart and see if they had any yarn in the color of the week.
But... as I was driving in that direction...I saw that the Blair Farm was having their spring garage sale, and they always have a yarn corner!
I filled up a reusable tote I had in my car and headed to the checkout at the front of the barn... I got 3.6 pounds of yarn for $12.75 (all I had on me!)
I have this in a separate box, and will be keeping track of the items I made from the yarn. I'll be sharing them here, on Instagram, and on my YouTube channel, tagged with #BlairStitchProject24
See those three fluffy pastel yarns in the bottom right? Actually, there were four, and one of them became a fluffy little hedgehog, project #1!
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| Happy Coffee Cup #2 |
#3 - Frog on a Swing. I played yarn chicken with this one and lost. I was going to make little eye bumps for this frog on a swing, but ran out of yarn. So I embroidered the eyes. He looks pretty goofy. Then he kept flipping over on the swing, so I had to sew the ropes to his head. Ouch! I had seen a picture for a cute little chicken, the size you can hang from a backpack. I tried making up on freehand...
Maybe a little too long... 
Oh, that's better. Make another one! 
or two... or three
A few more scrappy projects with the small balls of yarn: a pink possum, two turtles, a micro cat and a scrappy loaf cat!
There was some rug yarn in the mix, so I made a couple of coasters. 
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