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june 2, 2005
aaaack! Out of nowhere the flyer for Wild & Wooly's Bi-Annual Clearance Sale arrived. And I think to myself, 'that can't be this week, they don't have that until June'. Aaaack, it is June! (Not that we Bostonians would know with the crap weather we've been having.) Of course, I got a call the next day from my dentist to remind me that I have an appointment for Thursday morning. "Uh, I'm gonna have to move that appointment."
So I drove out to Lexington this morning for the 7am start and rushed downstairs to the sale area as soon as they opened the doors. Look at all those bags of sale yarn!
In my three years of coming to these clearance sales, I think this is the best selection of yarn yet. If you live anywhere near Lexington, you gotta go! Unfortunately, a terrible thing has happened to me in the last three years. I've become much more sensible about buying yarn. I came home only with a modest bag of Mission Falls wool and Jaeger Trinity cotton. (Passing up Debbie Bliss wool/cotton and Merino DK, Dale's superwash wool Freestyle, loads of Plymouth's Baby Alpaca Grande and Baby Alpaca DK, Southwest Trading Company's Optimum wool and a really cool cotton/elastic yarn called Point.)
Still I have big hopes for this yarn, as ALL of my previous W&W clearance sale purchases have turned into incredible projects (like January and the weasley sweaters). I have no doubt that these will be winners as well. So, that's the good news. Then I came home. I opened up the laptop to write this post and nothing but loud sounds, a black screen, and general badness. Hard drive dead, dead, dead. Aaaaack! Hubby has rushed off to buy a new hard drive in order to stop my shrieking. (Conveniently leaving his desktop computer free for blogging.) Oh and to those of you who recognized me at the sale, please remember, I look much better when I've had a shower. posted by alison at 11:44 am | in
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What a GREAT way to start the day (oh the temptations)! The store looks so hugh you lucky duck. I like just outside of Chgo and our LYSs do not have sales like this. Posted by: Leslie at June 2, 2005 11:52 AMOMG! Sale goodness... I wish I would have gotten in to knitting while we still lived in Connecticut (or earlier, in Chicopee). There seems to be so much yarny goodness in that region. Ahhh well, oh well, no regrets, all hail the internet! Posted by: Liz at June 2, 2005 11:52 AMI saw you there! I bought the lovely orange wool and the purple! :) FYI: if I look 1/2 as good when I'm a mom,with twins, at 7am...well, i'll count myself lucky. :) Thanks for being gracious about everyone recognizing you! I was very much star-struck! read my blog and you will see how star struck! the 'boy' was updated about 30 seconds after i left WW. Even he knows who you are! great meeting you and I am impressed with your resistance to stash enhancement. I have to throw out shoes and other stuff to make room before our move... he put a "tonage limit" on my stuff to pack (he is lenient on yarn). Gosh, I hope it wasn't sockapal-2-za that made your hard drive high tail it outta there! Yikes. Posted by: tammy at June 2, 2005 11:59 AMWow, that's a lot of sale yarn. [end understatement of the year.] I'm not-so-secretly relieved I don't have to rush over there right now since I am sporting morning hair myself. Anyway, just wanted to tell you I finally have a shot of me modeling Cyd up over on LJ. Okay now to actually start the "working" I'm doing from home today! Posted by: Daphne at June 2, 2005 12:14 PMSeriously, you must have the willpower of steel to turn down Optimum at least twice. Posted by: Cathi at June 2, 2005 2:01 PMOhhhhh AHHHHH. Nothing like a good haul of yarn to help out the pain of a dead hard drive. Which reminds me. I need to go back up my system... Sorry your hard drive died. My friend's laptop fan went wonky and now I relate it to an etch a sketch, where she has to shake it or turn it in odd directions to get it to turn on. Posted by: freecia at June 2, 2005 2:27 PMHow on sale are we talking? I can't believe you passed over the Plymouth Alpaca!! Posted by: Lauren at June 2, 2005 2:47 PMbusy bee! Posted by: cara at June 2, 2005 3:51 PMWell great now I have to buy a new keyboard because I do believe I ruined it with all the drool. I'm so stinking jealous! We don't have anything like that here in the good old midwest. Ah well all my money will be spent on a new keyboard anyway. Posted by: Rebekah at June 2, 2005 4:14 PMI am SO envious of where you live! If our store had a yarn sale that looked like that I would have to just hand over my paycheck for the month...you wouldn't be able to stop me from buying everything in site! Such willpower you have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by: Lee Anne at June 2, 2005 4:15 PMHow lucky you are to have a great yarn sale. I didn't knit for 8 years. (I know, who would ever stop doing such a wonderful thing? My life was nuts for a few years) Anyhow, when I started back the crazy price of yarn shocked me. I hope its not saockapalooza 2 thats closed I keeped trying to double click on your page to sign up an I couldn't get to the next page. I could have sworn last night and the night before I checked you were not ready yet. How could it happen so quickly! I am bummed I missed the boat I have been waiting for a month. Posted by: cindy at June 2, 2005 11:53 PMAlison, please consider extending the numbers of the sockapalooza 2, at least to the ones who have left comments on your blog. I will help you to arrange matches and statistics so perhaps there can be three groupings: beginners, experienced and latecommers. What do you think? I have been stocking up on sock yarn just for this event ... Posted by: Chrissie Phillips at June 3, 2005 3:40 AMThere's a bit of nostalgia, seeing the yarn store in Lexington. My cousins grew up just down the street from the green. I have fond memories of watching the Minute Men reenactments on the green nearby in the summers when we visited. Now, of course, whenever we visit the area, I drag whichever cousin I can along to that same yarn store. Thanks for a bit of memories. Posted by: Jessica at June 3, 2005 8:55 AMWhere was everyone? Ahh, a yarn sale :) Posted by: Vicki at June 3, 2005 10:53 AMHow do I find out about this sale???? I'm not far at all grew up the next town over! How do I find out about this sale???? I'm not far at all grew up the next town over! I feel your pain, Alison! The hard drive in one of our machines just died last weekend. I am thankful that my husband has insisted on building acube farm in our house, or else I would not have had a backup computer to use. To think, I'm the so-called computer geek but he's the one who keeps insisting that we buy more computers! Posted by: Dani at June 4, 2005 10:44 AM |
