Yarn? Is that you?
A while back I ordered some Opal Feelings yarn on eBay. I've wanted some - particularly the blue one - since it came out a couple years ago, and now that it's gone I still wanted some. I've been waiting patiently for it to come in the mail.
Well, the weather in Seattle has been particularly bad these past few days, and tonight when I arrived home I was getting my mail out in the rain (and in the dark, I hate you DST!), I grabbed a package which I thought was a book that I'm also expecting. But upon bringing it to my apartment, I realized it was my yarn. Except... book shaped.
Yes, my yarn was vacuum packed. Supposedly to save on shipping, but I've found that yarn shipping to and from Canada is really very reasonable via air mail. In any case, it was amusing. I made a cut in the bag and a hissing sound started and soon I had two very normal (if slightly flat) balls of yarn:
Yay for Opal Feelings!
Now, as for the knitting, there have been many secret projects lately. A pair of socks which I forgot to take a picture of (but one has been promised by the recipient) and this:
You may remember the other Harry Potter scarves - I knit one of the old style for each house, though I never got pictures of the Slytherin one. Well, this PoA one is a gift. :D
That is a lot of stockinette. Even more than the first ones, because this scarf is longer. Whew! But it's done and I think it turned out really well. It's on the way to it's new home and I hope she likes it!
Well, the weather in Seattle has been particularly bad these past few days, and tonight when I arrived home I was getting my mail out in the rain (and in the dark, I hate you DST!), I grabbed a package which I thought was a book that I'm also expecting. But upon bringing it to my apartment, I realized it was my yarn. Except... book shaped.
Yes, my yarn was vacuum packed. Supposedly to save on shipping, but I've found that yarn shipping to and from Canada is really very reasonable via air mail. In any case, it was amusing. I made a cut in the bag and a hissing sound started and soon I had two very normal (if slightly flat) balls of yarn:
Yay for Opal Feelings!
Now, as for the knitting, there have been many secret projects lately. A pair of socks which I forgot to take a picture of (but one has been promised by the recipient) and this:
You may remember the other Harry Potter scarves - I knit one of the old style for each house, though I never got pictures of the Slytherin one. Well, this PoA one is a gift. :D
That is a lot of stockinette. Even more than the first ones, because this scarf is longer. Whew! But it's done and I think it turned out really well. It's on the way to it's new home and I hope she likes it!
posted by Unknown at
7:05 PM
3 Comments:
That doesn't make much sense, to vacuum seal yarn before sending to "save on postage" as postage is almost always based solely on weight, which a vacuum bag just adds to.
If it were to minimize damage or staining, sure, but otherwise, that does not make sense. I'm glad you got yarn that makes you happy, though.
(If you have a very large parcel, it can be charged by dimensions as well as weight. Or those priority flat rate boxes where you can shove up to 25 lbs into the box for one rate.)
Honestly, I think vacuum-packing yarn is brilliant. I ordered some once, and it showed up in a soggy cardboard box. It wasn't even in a bag, just skeins in the box. I was so lucky nothing bad happened to it!
I am SO vacu-sealing yarn when I mail it from now on. Logically, is the weight of the air removed greater or less than that of the added bag? Probably less, but who cares! You can get the yarn into a smaller bag AND know that it's protected in shipment. I agree with Batty. It's brilliant.
And it's gorgeous yarn, too - enjoy!
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