Well, the holidays drove a big stake in the heart of my daily blog posting. But life goes on!
We arrived in Columbus early on Wednesday morning, and after various activities, we exchanged Christmas presents! For anyone wondering, my niece loved the case we made for her!
The holiday went by smoothly, and on Saturday, we decided to go to the Scott Antique Market at the Ohio State Fairgrounds. When I lived in Columbus, the market was one of my favorite things to do. It opens once a month in the fall and winter months; a venue full of antique vendors selling various wares and accoutrements. The thing is huge. Here, I took a photo from one corner:
This booth was really open and had a ton of different things in it. One small box under a table caught my eye, though:
Vintage yarn? And not just any yarn...
Holy mother of SuperSaver, this stuff was super itchy! And the skein was teensy. One ounce! At least it's shrink and stretch resistant, and comes in a handy, tangle-free ball. NO WINDING! I do love the cute little heart tag that marks the end of the center-pull tail. If only current skeins employed something similar, I'd (a) be able to make some sweet charm necklaces with them (or tile my kitchen backsplash) and (b) not have to reach in and pull out the guts of the skein to find that errant little tail.
Ah, well. I've given up on the center-pull ball, anyway. I knit exclusively from the outside of cakes now. No deflated skein or cake ends, and a cutely shrinking ball that never seems to change size until one day, what happened? It's all gone.
Finding old yarn like this makes me super thankful for modern fiber!
- YX
But you didn't tell us the most important thing! Did you buy any of the vintage yarn??? I love making finds like this, and I've added quite a few vintage pattern books to my collection - I'm probably never going to make anything from a 70's book of Vogue Crochet patterns or an 80's book of Beatrix Potter themed knits but I love looking at them.
ReplyDeleteSo true! I couldn't find the owner of the booth-in-question, so I left the yarn. It'd be kind of fun to frame some, though. I'm such a glutton for frames and shadowboxes!
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