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kimberlee
11-25-2005, 02:05 PM
Does anyone buy yarn online? If so, where do you get it?
DixieChick
11-25-2005, 02:50 PM
I sell yarn online
www.middayfaire.com/mainstore.php
I am Bajo Boutique
www.wahmtropolis.com has come beautiful stuff
Mamarina sells at hyenacart. Her store is Stitches under the sun. She does pretty yarn too.
Theresa at Little Turtle Knits does really great stuff too. www.littleturtleknits.com
If you are looking for not mama dyed yarn, I love www.marrhaven.com Organic, humanely raise,d and super soft.
www.knitpicks.com is great for cheaper yarn, but is still pretty good quality.
www.elann.com
www.littleknits.com
crazyestonian
11-25-2005, 02:51 PM
I have bought knitpicks yarn www.knitpicks.com. They have a paper catalog as well (but the colors in it are not all the way true, but they do offer color cards)
And I can bet that you will get several other recommendations for their yarn, because it is nice and soft and cheep-cheep-cheep
mommy2maya
11-25-2005, 03:35 PM
another www.knitpicks.com recommendation! I love love love their yarn. Free shipping over $30 too! But, really it depends on what type of yarn you like. I like my yarn processed & soft & merino. But, lots of people like farm yarns that are less processed. For farm yarn, Theresa at www.littleturtleknits.com has a great selection.
TraceyH
11-25-2005, 03:38 PM
Ok, I might get a boo for this one but I bought some pretty nice Merino at Joanne's. Free shipping to boot. I would buy from them again but will prolly choose knitpicks for Merino next time because it is a smaller company. I like to support those WAHMamas
mamabear
11-25-2005, 06:58 PM
I bought a bunch of merino and wool of the andes from knitpicks and it's been great. They also have a good selection of books with good prices on those too, and free shipping over $30.
I am just starting to knit, and I need the supersoft, processed merino yarns for my dd, who's ultrasensitive to scratchiness, but depending on the project I can definitely see making things out of some nice farm yarns like Theresa has. (I live in sheep country so I have access to a ridiculous variety of local yarns too.)
I haven't ordered from them but hear good things about elann.com.
Oh! And don't forget to check ebay! Some sellers have brand name yarns like Rowan for a fraction of the retail price, regularly available, and then some people just sell of bunches of yarn from their stashes there for even cheaper.
(snip)but will prolly choose knitpicks for Merino next time because it is a smaller company. I like to support those WAHMamas
You aren't assuming knit picks is a WAHMama, are you?
You might want to read this: http://www.knitpicks.com/content/help_aboutus.asp
Now, that's not a reason to not shop there, but I didn't want you assuming this is Kelley selling yarn out of her living room, because it most definitely isn't.
If your WAHM comment was related to PP comments about Theresa, Marina, DixieChick (whose name escapes me right now), etc then nevermind me.
~amey
DixieChick
11-26-2005, 10:28 AM
I'm Hayes. No worries Amey! It's hard to remember EVERYONE online. And I agree with Amey. Knitpicks is a company. It is run by people, but it certainly isn't a WAHm operation or even a small family farm operation like Marr Haven.
I'm Hayes. No worries Amey!
And I was going to guess Hayes. Glad to know that relationship in my mind is actually correct. :)
~amey (who needs to stop coming in here and seeing all the fun yarn people have when I'm on a fast...)
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