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I usually look for yarn bargains when I knit. I love wonderful, yummy yarns, but they can be truly expensive, and if I mess up a pattern, I hate to waste time and money on a truly special yarn. However, I have “grazed” at my local yarn shop and come away with a couple of big splurges.

I already told you about the Taki Stacy Charles yarn I made into a beautiful scarf. Called “Ritratto,” it’s some of my very favorite yarn to work with, and it’s absolutely stunning in lace patterns. At $13.75 a skein, it was a major yarn purchase for me (2 skeins, gasp!), but I love it so much I’m watching for sales so I can get some more!

My other major splurge was a super chunky Misti Alpaca yarn in handpainted colors. It is absolutely the softest, snuggliest yarn I’ve every laid my hands on, I absolutely love it. I was planning on making a scarf out of it, but now, I’m rethinking that, it just seems like too nice a yarn to relegate to a scarf. I’ve come to realize that cheap yarns are great for a lot of projects, and you can find some really great deals on good quality yarns.

However, if you splurge on a really high-quality yarn, you’ll see the difference immediately, and you may just get spoiled! I won’t invest in these yarns all the time, I just can’t afford it, but every once in a while, I plan to splurge on a really high-quality yarn, just to see what I’m missing the rest of the year!

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