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By Sarah E. White, About.com Guide to Knitting

Do You Buy Knitting Grab Bags?

Wednesday October 1, 2008
Every now and then you'll come across a yarn company or knitting store, online or off, selling knitting grab bags, usually a collection of yarns of a similar weight or from the same manufacturer that are sold at a discount. They're often overstocks or closeouts, and the catch is that you don't get to know or see what you're buying until after the sale is made.

I really like grab bags (and usually get one every time I buy from Patternworks). Getting them is like Christmas (except no one buys me yarn for Christmas, no matter how much I'd like them to) and it's really inspiring to figure out what to do with just a ball or two or a two of a particular yarn (you'll see some of the fruits of my latest grab bag later this week.)

Do you like grab bags? Have you ever gotten one and just loved all the yarn that was inside? Or do you feel ripped off when you buy one and the yarn is all strange textures and colors? Let me know by answering this week's poll.

Comments

October 6, 2008 at 12:40 pm
(1) mousepotato says:

This isn’t my thing. I used to get bags of odds and ends seconds years (and I mean 30+ years) ago from Unger, Bernat, and American Thread when they were local to me and they were what I could afford, but I found that even then the yarn was not worth the cost, so I stopped. I prefer to choose my own yarns and fibers and I will purchase quantity when presented with a sale and the opportunity, but never sight unseen again.

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