Supplies

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?

Comments

[Jennifer]

Great finds, it is near impossible to find real wool or old wooden reels around here, superb!

[white o'morn cottage]

Oh how I love that Bainin wool and the spools. I also can't pass a nice ball of wool in a CH. I have quite a collection that is threatening to burst out!