I'm getting serious withdrawal symptoms from the car boot sales now. It's five or six weeks since I last went to one, and there is goodness knows how long to go before they start up again - at least four months!! Lucky Caroline has them going on all year round where she lives - I've got huge car boot sale envy!
Anyway, at least the two charity shops in our town are open all year round and this morning I got a few useful craft supplies from one of them.
Five 50g balls of traditional Irish wool - 50p per ball. I rarely leave pure wool or pure cotton yarn behind if its cheap enough in a charity shop as it's quite a rare find round here. Bri nylon is still big in our charity shops - where do people find it, is it still maufactured? Or that horrible acrylic eyelash yarn - that's easy to find too. This lot will be added to the not inconsiderable black sack of yarn which is jammed under the sideboard in the dining room - oh, for a bit bigger house (or, alternatively, less of a pack-rat personality!)
For £1.00 I bought these five vintage cotton reels. I can never resist the vintage wooden cotton reels, and often the thread comes in very useful at some point too. These vintage colours had such lovely names - Bright Violet, Lemon, Dark Lovebird. It must have been somebody's job to think up such evocative and accurate names for the various colours - what a lovely job to have. Does anyone know if modern thread manufactuers like Gutterman have named colours these days, or is it all done by numbers?