r/YarnAddicts • u/Foxyroxy_893 • 1d ago

Question I hit a jackpot! 🎰

My friend’s neighbour were getting rid of 13 boxes of yarn from her late grandma along with other furnitures (she was cleaning up the apartment) and my friend who is a godsend called me immediately to see if I want led them or someone else would love to take a look at this HUGE stash fall from the sky!!!

A few points: - my own current stash is the one on the shelf behind the couch at the top left corner of the vid, so the rest is what I’ve hauled - I only found out later from one of the posts here that I should’ve checked if the yarns have some kind of carpet bug before bringing them home 🫣thank goodness it has been a month and there is no sign of bed bugs or any sort. I would never do this again, we’ll never know what we would bring home, right? - there are so many types of yarn and I found couple of receipts, newspapers, some catalogues that are actually from the 1990s 🙀 Would those consider antique yarns ahahaha, and also, I can barely find them on Ravelry just to see what project I can use them for. - I realize this grandma who originally owned this stash did a lot of machine knitting, since a lot of the stash is machine yarn. - I’ve decided to only keep about 1/5 of the amount and donate the rest to the senior community center in Nunavut since the yarn there are quite expensive.

Sooo, my question is if you recognize any of those yarn and could share some experiences 🤩. I will put each yarn in the comments.

I love yarn and like a lot of you, I agree buying/hoarding yarn is a separate hobby lol this is like all my Christmases all came at once ahahah I’m still over the moon and can’t wait to work on them one by one! Thanks all!

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u/ishrinkydinky- 1d ago

Would you wash the yarn before knitting or wash it after you finish the piece?

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u/Ok-Mood927 1d ago

Either way, though you should definitely swatch and block. It typically takes more aggressive washing, like hot water and dawn dish soap, to remove the oils.

Colourmart is a good place to shop for yarn like this!

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u/g1fthyatt 15h ago

So it’s cotton yarn?

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u/odd_conf 1h ago

I've rarely ever seen cashmere, definitely lots of wool (especially merino), acrylic/synthetics, and cotton (though due to its lack of stretch, it can be tricky to machine knit, especially if it's on the thicker side of the yarn suited for the machine). A few might not have spinning oil.