I know, I know, it’s Wednesday & I usually do a WIP Wednesday post. But that would involve actually having some progress to share… LOL I actually have managed to finish Jon’s worsted weight socks (awaiting photos) & I’ve got some more progress on his other pair of socks.. but other than that, the only things I’ve worked on is designs, designs, designs… you know, stuff I can’t share. I can’t even share a “what am I reading” post because I just finished 2 books & I’m actually not really reading anything. gasp.

I can tell you, I am working on two designs to submit to Crochetvolution, and I’ve been working on 2 new 12″ square designs for two different CALs for April 1st, part of my ongoing square CAL series. They’ve been a bit, well, error prone & they’ve gone through about 12 levels of editing… so far… I somehow suspect there’s still more. I’ve been slowly crocheting away on my current afghan design sample as well, but that’s really slow going. I’m making the 60″ across size, and I spent about 6 hours crocheting on it over the weekend… only to realize I had made a mistake the very first row I crocheted that morning… as in, I completely skipped one of the pattern rows. Entirely. So… I had to frog back 6 hours worth of work. The afghan is now pouting in the middle of my living room floor where I kick it every time I walk by.

So today’s post is my latest charity finds. Or, technically, Jon’s charity finds. First he found this…

It’s all acrylic, except for one skein that’s a 50-50 wool-nylon blend – the small dark blue skein you see on the top.

He mentioned that there was also some “lace” yarn that he saw but didn’t know if I would be interested or not. He took a photo of the yarn (good man) but the photo was pretty dark but I told him to go ahead & grab it if it was still there next time he went. The next day he came home with this

It’s some kind of cotton blend yarn, textured & a little fuzzy, and is definitely NOT lace yarn. I have 3 different colors – a white, a yellow, and a white with pale green specks in it. NO idea what I’m doing with it, but it’s nifty yarn all the same

We went to Savers recently, and Jon scored two car cases & some old Red line hotwheels cars. I also managed to score this

I also picked up this…

The black on the left, the cone, and the alpaca yarn came from Savers. The black is cotton, & there’s enough for a short sleeved summer top for me. the blue cone yarn is labeled Zephyr.On the right is 2 skeins of yarn I bought at AC Moore with my coupons.

You know how, when our hubby’s are a jerk, and they bring home flowers or chocolate? Well, mine’s well trained to bring home this…

Lately I was given a very, very generous charity yarn donation by a lovely lady. I grew up going to church with this lady, who taught Sunday School, sings in the choir, and knits and crochets. Back in the day when I sang in choir, too, I remember her crocheting away while singing – and I promptly started bringing mine as well.

About a year or so she gave me a lot of yarn, and that was the yarn I used for all of my afghans last year. At Christmas time she let me know she had a lot of yarn for me, and right before Jon’s birthday I got the call that she was done sorting & it was time to pick it up.

I quickly snapped this photo as I greedily snagged up bags of yarn, stuffing them into my car everywhere… it was also full of groceries for Jon’s birthday party, so thank goodness I have a big car!

I started taking photos of the yarn to share here, but I quickly realized that I had way too much yarn to photograph & share, but I can’t resist sharing some of it with you!

Wedgie decided this Mommy on the floor thing was a lot of fun, and decided to help.

Yes, he’s my cutie!