Post by jeanne on Mar 28, 2009 13:40:11 GMT
Okay abit of a gripe but I'll win in the end!
Went to our only source for yarn in our small town, the local Walmart, looking specifically for wool or wool blends. Sigh. The only wool available in a sea of acrylics came in a pack of 2 small balls, I do mean small, for $8 and they were the darkest most depressing colours ever. I did find an 80% polyester, 20% wool blend, again sad sad colours and little of it. I found a 70% acrylic, 30% mohair blend and few of that, also in crummy colours. RATS!
However, a half hour's country drive from here we have a sheep farm with a sheepskin, mutton and wool shop on the premises. Everything from steering wheel covers to cushions, rugs, sweaters, oilskins from Australia, you name it. And I just KNOW they have 100% wool skeins and balls of yarn out there. They have an open house on Easter saturday every year and when we go there with our niece and nephew I intend to return with 1 or 2 balls of wool, in much better colours, still not neon but lighter colours than at Wallyworld. It'll be expensive but then I will have made some wool squares. ;D Everything else I've got is acrylic or blends.
p.s. I forgot to mention why our small town of 7,000 has a massive Walmart in it. They doubled it in size once and soon will again. We are the hub for many outlying small town and villages, some are fly-in northern communities, no roads. Everybody comes to Walmart to shop. Even store keepers come here, buy stuff in bulk and fly it up north and resell it.
Went to our only source for yarn in our small town, the local Walmart, looking specifically for wool or wool blends. Sigh. The only wool available in a sea of acrylics came in a pack of 2 small balls, I do mean small, for $8 and they were the darkest most depressing colours ever. I did find an 80% polyester, 20% wool blend, again sad sad colours and little of it. I found a 70% acrylic, 30% mohair blend and few of that, also in crummy colours. RATS!
However, a half hour's country drive from here we have a sheep farm with a sheepskin, mutton and wool shop on the premises. Everything from steering wheel covers to cushions, rugs, sweaters, oilskins from Australia, you name it. And I just KNOW they have 100% wool skeins and balls of yarn out there. They have an open house on Easter saturday every year and when we go there with our niece and nephew I intend to return with 1 or 2 balls of wool, in much better colours, still not neon but lighter colours than at Wallyworld. It'll be expensive but then I will have made some wool squares. ;D Everything else I've got is acrylic or blends.
p.s. I forgot to mention why our small town of 7,000 has a massive Walmart in it. They doubled it in size once and soon will again. We are the hub for many outlying small town and villages, some are fly-in northern communities, no roads. Everybody comes to Walmart to shop. Even store keepers come here, buy stuff in bulk and fly it up north and resell it.