Lucky Day...

 at the charity shop, where there was a bin on the floor with a bit of yarn in it. It was mostly odd balls, partial skeins, and scraps, but there were a few full balls, too. Of course, I had a rummage around and found some that wanted to come live with me.

orphan yarn no more--she only asked for a euro

I know the multicoloured partial skein with the green in it is acrylic. I like the colours and know how I am going to use it. I have a large pin loom project on the go and I am curious to see how it will look doubled up and woven on my loom. And it's the right weight to use single stranded on my heart loom, so I might make a heart or two, too!

The small grey partial skein looked like Donegal tweed wool. The fuzzy blue with the blobs seemed to be at least mostly mohair. I did the burn test when I got home and right on both counts--yay! I'm not sure yet how I will use these, but I'm sure they will be right at home in a future scrappy project.

I could tell what the last bit is because there are a few full balls with label, as well as the ball and a bit more. All in all, I think there are at least 4 full balls here. It's 46% mohair, 44% cotton, and 10% nylon. I know how I'm going to use that, too--also with my pin loom. Last fall, a friend gave me a sweater made by his late wife and asked me if I could deconstruct it and reuse the yarn. I said I could. Because I wanted to preserve some of her work, I removed the sleeves and made a bag out of one of them. 

The burn test indicates that this yarn is also mostly mohair. I unraveled the body of the sweater and used the yarn to weave squares on my pin loom. The mohair/cotton blend I got today contains both of these colours, and some slubs like this, too, so it will work together nicely. I will use it to weave more squares. Funnily enough, I have been thinking about this project for several days now. I have 8 hanks of purple wool that another friend brought back for me from a thrift store in Boston last autumn. My plan was to combine the pin loom squares I have with crochet in the purple yarn to make a jacket. I've been trying to decide how I was going to construct that, but have been going back and forth, bouncing around between different ideas. Now I'm glad I was so indecisive, because I'll have a bunch more squares with my new yarn to incorporate. 

I'm thrilled at my little orphan yarn haul and surprised that I found a bunch of yarn that works so well in my work-in-progress. 

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