Clearance Story Blog Candy Winner

Hi there blog friends!  As promised, I rolled random.org to get the winner.   I hope you’ll take a second to pop in and see if it was you.

If the winner could please reach out to me through my contact page with your mailing address within 48 hours.  With no response, I’ll pick a new name.  Remember, I save packages until I have a few, then I make a post office run :-)

There were a lot of great clearance stories.  It almost makes me feel as if I’m been living under a rock.  There is no doubt that a frugal crafter will find a sale!!  I’ve found some great items on clearance in my day many years ago I had a favorite sale I would attend.    I’m a knitter too and more specifically I do machine knitting.  That’s the impatient part of me, on a machine I can get a sweater done in two days :-)  Knitting machines take cone yarn but it’s a tad pricey, besides being a little hard to find.  It would begin at a couple of dollars a pound and go up – something like silk would be through the roof.   I found a place in Cartersville, Georgia that sold yarn but better yet had a sale every July.   They said to get anything good you needed to come early and camp out.  So for years my family and I made the trip and could camp out the day before to get our place at the door.  Once inside, you could have anything you could snag for $1.00 a pound, including some ribbons and laces.  My family and I would case the yarn mill out the day before to see where all the expensive stuff was.  Then when they opened the doors at 5am on the day of the sale – everyone would bust in and run along raking cones of yarn into big boxes.  A stocked warehouse quickly emptied within and hour or so, with knitters, weavers, spinners and other artisans leaving quite happy.  Pity, R&M Yarns moved to Tennessee and there’s no more sale, but every year the same people would come. Even though it was a hectic run to grab the best stuff, people were friendly!!

So as not to make it too confusing, I’ll show the winner for buttons tomorrow and I’ll have something new to show then.