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View Full Version : Herrschner's weekly yarn sale -- yowsah!

pragmatica
January 21st, 2006, 09:09 PM
This may be old news to everyone else, but Herrschner's weekly yarn sale (http://www.herrschners.com/yarnsale.aspx?id=2&tab=3) seems really astonishing to me. Most of the great stuff is already sold out today (Debbie Bliss Cotton Angora for $3.50, Grandma's Best crochet thread in 400-yard cylinders for $1) but there's still stuff like Reynolds Devotion (50-50 nylon and angora) $4.

Last week, I ordered eight skeins of Skacel Ocean in a pretty variegated pink for $2/skein, and a couple of books about which I know nothing (yet another book of baby blankets and a quick-afghans-with-a-Q-hook book) because they were $2 each. This is clearly the only way I'm ever going to be able to make patterns with the yarn-store-quality yarn that they call for.

I've won eBay auctions from Herrschner's before but it never occurred to me to visit their site. The sale items change on Wednesday, and apparently the best stuff sells out fast, but the best stuff seems really really good.

Just noticed that Jo Sharp 100% cotton is on sale but I'm going to have to let it pass for now.

--Elissa
MarvieN
January 25th, 2006, 04:43 AM
I bought some of the cotton angora before it sold out. I agree with you, it's the only way I can afford the high end yarns! You can sign up on the website and get emails when the yarn sales are updated, that's how I was able to get the cotton angora before it was all gone.
PBLKNP
January 30th, 2006, 11:04 AM
I swear, I live for their weekly yarn sale and "hot buys." However, I think people must lurk on there at midnight waiting for them to be updated--the amount of times I've gotten all excited over a certain yarn on sale, only to find that it's already sold out! And this is with me checking at 5:30 a.m.!
charkitty
February 1st, 2006, 04:18 AM
I swear, I live for their weekly yarn sale and "hot buys." However, I think people must lurk on there at midnight waiting for them to be updated--the amount of times I've gotten all excited over a certain yarn on sale, only to find that it's already sold out! And this is with me checking at 5:30 a.m.!


I'm on the east coast and used to receive the yarn sales e-mail at midnight. However, now I get the sale e-mails well after midnight and most of the really good deals are 'sold out'.


charkitty