A Bit of Yarn Ordered

Last week I saw that Eat, Sleep, Knit had marked down the Madelinetosh discontinued colors. You know that I usually don’t mind ordering a few skeins of yarn but I’ve truly come to realize I’ll probably never use all that I have and if we move, I have a heck of a lot of yarn to move. It’s one thing to have it tucked away here and there but when I fill up an entire moving van with yarn, Vince may come unglued . . and we do not want that to happen!

I did end up ordering some of the yarn but I honestly put it in my cart and took it out a dozen times. I would say to myself “Once this color is gone, you can’t get it anymore!” Then I’d say “But a new color is going to be better!”

I’ve told this story before but back probably 40 years ago, there was a purple dress at my favorite dress shop in Lake Charles and I really wanted it it. I tried it on and it fit perfectly but I talked myself out of getting it. A day or so later, I had to have it, went back and it was gone. The determining factor for me, since the purple dress incident, has been “If I don’t get it and can never get it, will it bother me? Will I think about it from time to time and wish I had gotten it?”

Several of the discontinued colors . . no, I love them but it won’t bother me at all not to have them.

Blue Gingham in Madelinetosh DK . . that’s the color I could see myself always wishing I had gotten so I ended up getting 8 skeins which may end up being the yarn I use for an upcoming sweater.

I ordered 4 skeins of Madelinetosh Vintage in Oak, which is also a discontinued color. Here’s my reasoning for ordering that and I think by the time you finish reading, you’ll agree that it was probably a waste of money. I have 9 skeins of Madelinetosh Vintage in Oak. It’s very old – probably at least 8 or 9 years old. I wanted to use it for a sweater last fall but I needed a bit more than what I had. I knew it was a longshot but I ordered an additional 4 skeins. The colors were so far off that I knew I couldn’t do anything to make them all work together. So, now that it’s discontinued again, I figured I’d order 4 more skeins and maybe they were all left over from the batch with the last four I’d ordered so I’d have 8 skeins of Oak that match. But, if 9 skeins of the old Oak weren’t enough for a sweater, why would I think I needed 8 skeins of the new Oak? Don’t ask!

The next day, I got an email from ESK saying the four skeins were mismatched, though they would probably work if I alternated skeins. What the heck? Now I’m wondering if any of the Oak I will have will work together . . but I went ahead and got them. I’m sure there’s something I can do with all that beautiful, dark, olive-ish green yarn.