This jam is way out
I try not to queue for sales because it bothers me to wait in a line for a long time. Thirty minutes, maybe, but I will be shifting my weight and wandering around for most of the time like a tweaker. It helps if there's someone standing in line with me.
Lining up for a crappy discount on yarn, for Pete's sake, sounded like crazy talk, crazy! It's not like I need more yarn. I was promised lunch at Porto's and a trip to the local thrift stores for afters. I agreed to get in line an hour before opening and I actually showed up on time and there were already people there in chairs and sitting on the ground! Before the doors opened, there were maybe 50 people total lined up. It's an event. Everyone else in line was wearing something they'd made and were passing the time working on something they'd brought. I walked up and down the line looking at what other people were making and striking up conversations with strangers and wishing I'd brought coffee.
When the doors opened, I honestly expected the lady-race-walk to get to the half-off backroom but that didn't happen. Not at all. People just strolled in, looked around, maybe drifted towards the back. When the backroom got too full of people, the others lined up at the entrance to wait their turn to enter. Inside, it was crowded like a sample sale but everyone was "excuse me," "pardon me," "would you mind if I reached in there," etc. One woman rifling through the $1 patterns asked the lady behind her if she wanted to get in there. The other lady replied that no, no, that was alright, she was only looking for crochet patterns. The first woman continued looking through the patterns and handed back to the other lady, a total stranger, all the crochet patterns she found.
The dignified-lady-non-race-walk
The store had asked in advance for people to bring their own shopping bags (which I remembered) and cans for the food drive (which I didn't). I'd dropped Coraline into my shopping bag while I was walking around the store and the cashier saw her and asked me about her. She passed her around to the other cashiers who all wanted to know about her sweater. I think they were asking because they wanted to know why a grown person was making clothes for a little toy. Most people had overflowing and multiple bags but I didn’t buy much, a few skeins and the rest were tools and needles. I did spend some time huffing the Double Sea Silk but I could not bring myself to spend $26 (after the discounts) on a single skein of yarn I knew I would never use (most of a similar size sell for $8-12).
While I was waiting in line to pay
The thrift stores, the two that were open, were interesting. The others either were not open on a Sunday (!!!) or had closed early for the game. I found two dresses at It's a Wrap! that I liked the look of but not for me.
This dress ($190) looked like it was made entirely of trim and I thought I could try something similar later (for the dolls, of course).
This dress I just LOVED. An Anna Sui, marked down to $85.
I took more pictures of the sleeves, hem and midsection and close-ups of the trim and I had to ask Paula about the construction. Too many different stitches for a little dress so I settled on just using the color combo (pink with black trim) for a doll dress, already in progress, which looks nothing like this.
Lining up for a crappy discount on yarn, for Pete's sake, sounded like crazy talk, crazy! It's not like I need more yarn. I was promised lunch at Porto's and a trip to the local thrift stores for afters. I agreed to get in line an hour before opening and I actually showed up on time and there were already people there in chairs and sitting on the ground! Before the doors opened, there were maybe 50 people total lined up. It's an event. Everyone else in line was wearing something they'd made and were passing the time working on something they'd brought. I walked up and down the line looking at what other people were making and striking up conversations with strangers and wishing I'd brought coffee.
When the doors opened, I honestly expected the lady-race-walk to get to the half-off backroom but that didn't happen. Not at all. People just strolled in, looked around, maybe drifted towards the back. When the backroom got too full of people, the others lined up at the entrance to wait their turn to enter. Inside, it was crowded like a sample sale but everyone was "excuse me," "pardon me," "would you mind if I reached in there," etc. One woman rifling through the $1 patterns asked the lady behind her if she wanted to get in there. The other lady replied that no, no, that was alright, she was only looking for crochet patterns. The first woman continued looking through the patterns and handed back to the other lady, a total stranger, all the crochet patterns she found.
The dignified-lady-non-race-walk
The store had asked in advance for people to bring their own shopping bags (which I remembered) and cans for the food drive (which I didn't). I'd dropped Coraline into my shopping bag while I was walking around the store and the cashier saw her and asked me about her. She passed her around to the other cashiers who all wanted to know about her sweater. I think they were asking because they wanted to know why a grown person was making clothes for a little toy. Most people had overflowing and multiple bags but I didn’t buy much, a few skeins and the rest were tools and needles. I did spend some time huffing the Double Sea Silk but I could not bring myself to spend $26 (after the discounts) on a single skein of yarn I knew I would never use (most of a similar size sell for $8-12).
While I was waiting in line to pay
The thrift stores, the two that were open, were interesting. The others either were not open on a Sunday (!!!) or had closed early for the game. I found two dresses at It's a Wrap! that I liked the look of but not for me.
This dress ($190) looked like it was made entirely of trim and I thought I could try something similar later (for the dolls, of course).
This dress I just LOVED. An Anna Sui, marked down to $85.
I took more pictures of the sleeves, hem and midsection and close-ups of the trim and I had to ask Paula about the construction. Too many different stitches for a little dress so I settled on just using the color combo (pink with black trim) for a doll dress, already in progress, which looks nothing like this.
Labels: Gatherings, Knitting, Toys
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