...lately, I have been spending a lot of time searching for yarn to trim my pillowcases; I regularly make the rounds of my local yarn shops, but because I'm looking for cotton, cotton blends or yarns that feel like cotton, and it being January when yarn shops are well-stocked with wools and not cottons, I often leave empty-handed. So, I search online, always looking for new shops which carry different yarn brands; most recently, I've found Webs (or their blog) which I like because it seems to carry a wide selection of yarn and, very importantly, offers discounts when you buy over a certain amount! I have bought yarn from them a couple of times now, but I am always a bit wary of buying yarn online because a photo of a ball of yarn can never compare to actually seeing and touching the yarn (although I could probably get color shade cards in most cases)...
As you can see, I am amassing a fine supply from all my different sources, but being a bit of a color fiend, I find that the yarn color I'm looking for often falls somewhere between two available shades. So, I have started to recycle old sweaters or thrift shop sweaters for yarn; I found great instructions online, such as, here and here. The idea of recycling appeals to me on a simple level because I love creating something new and totally different from something old, unused and discarded... and of course, even though there is some labor involved in recycling a sweater (which I really like doing for some reason!), yarn recycled from a sweater usually is a cheaper alternative than bought yarn! The green ladder trim in the forefront of the photo below is made of recycled yarn:
What about you?... Do you you have any favorite yarn supply sources? If you have any good online ones, I'd so love it if you would share them with all of us in your comments to this post -- I can then maybe put together a list of online yarn shops for all of us to refer to when we're desperately trying to find that certain shade of that certain weight of that certain fiber of yarn!...
