JoAnns is evil.

Ok, maybe not. But even though they don't carry much in the way of awesome fabric, they do carry some good stuff. And I tend to have a weakness for them and the 40% off coupons. Ok, a big weakness for them. And they handed out fliers with a bunch of coupons on them, and I had TWO of them.



So I got a yard of each of these. I know, I have a thing for the cherry print. But on the pink its so cute! And the cats.. its black cat, on pink. How could I not turn that down?



These are both fat quarters. With the coupon, they were like 80 cents a piece. The one on the right is going to be a pot holder or two. The one on the left was just intriguing. The gold is actual metallic gold, and very pretty.



This cherry print I got a couple weeks ago, but I am going to make this purse out of it. I finally just now got all the notions and whatnot for it.. finding a magnetic snap was damn near impossible. But I got red piping and red lining, and it should be cute.

I didn't get much else at JoAnns, other than some thread.. I had to get craft thread because the boyfriend has been popping buttons off of his clothing, and regular sewing thread is not cutting it. I tell you, it's like living with a kid sometimes. With him and that cat, how did I end up living with two smelly, rough-housing, stinky boys?

I did swing by Hobby Lobby, too. They have Sugar n Cream on sale, and I wanted to see if they had the new Stripes. I know, my SnC stash goes beyond SABLE.. I think I have over 150 balls of it and 5 or 6 cones. A ton of that I got during the Amazon misprice, but I have really been coveting the Stripes. And alas, they had 8 out of 9 colors, and I picked up one of each. Im working on a dishcloth using the Lizard Ridge pattern, so having this new yarn will hopefully give me the ambition to hurry up and get it done!

The coolest thing since sliced bread, and my cotton yarn stash.

Lookit what I got! I found this via the Cast On Podcast Blog. You know the tool organizers called "Bucket Bosses"? It's an organizer for tools and such that you can find at Home Depot, etc. that fits around a five gallon bucket. Well, the clever thing they did is they made a version for coffee mugs! I went onto eBay and googled "mug boss" and a few days later this arrived at my parents. It's so cute, and it has so many pockets for all my little knitting gadgets I have out while I'm knitting. This thing is too clever!

And alot of us know of the Amazon Misprice that happened last Saturday. Instead of discounting the Sugar n Cream yarn 40 cents - they priced it 40 cents! This quickly went around like wildfire. I know I placed 2 orders, and alot of other people placed orders themselves. Well, when my mom came to visit today she brought the yarn with her (I live in an apartment in the inner city, so I have any deliveries delivered to their suburban house). So, in honor of getting the yarn today, I just decided to photograph my entire dishcloth yarn stash.

This is the colored yarn I bought from the Amazon Misprice. 45 balls of ombres and solids.

This was my pre-existing dishcloth stash, mainly from Hobby Lobby and JoAnn sales, and Wal-Mart.

This is the Bernat Handicrafter that Wal-Mart carried that one time. It came in 12 and 14 oz. I found it in the clearance section, freshly marked down to $2.50 a skein.

A cone of Sugar n Cream, I forget which color, but I found it on clearance for $3.50. And 3 balls of Cotton Tots for Facecloths.

And this is a beautiful thing - 120 balls of white and off white balls of Sugar n Cream yarn from the Amazon Misprice for dyeing!

I have my odds and ends in a gallon baggie, it would be kinda tough to photograph.. so just imagine a big jumble of sugar n cream odds and ends, and you got it ;-)