A sample of our yarn selection

We have been selling Mill End yarns in some way for 10 years now.  It all started way before then, when I taught myself to crochet and knit but, being some time ago and living in a very small community, there was no yarn available, except at the local Dime Store.  Yep!  I said Dime Store, so that gives an approximate time.  Waaaaaay Back.  If any of you crafters have used the yarns of old, you know there wasn't much available but worsted and maybe baby weight in acrylic.  (not that there is anything wrong with acrylic, I use it still) but you wished for a selection of other fibers.  You were not sure what they were but you felt sure they were out there.

So I began searching the ads in the few magazines that I had and sent for samples.  LIttle strands of colorful and sometimes textured yarns.  Usually cost a quarter and/or a stamped addressed envelope.  That's back when everyone actually used the snail mail to correspond.

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That's how I found that Mill Ends existed.  So many years later, when I wanted to sell yarn on eBay and through other methods,  I located some sources and off I went.  Then suddenly the Recycle, Repurpose, Reclaimed, Reuse, Upcycle Age came into being and I realized that I had been doing that for years.  Mill Ends yarns are leftovers from national and international name brand yarns and from the clothing manufacturing industries.  They sit in huge warehouses waiting to be found and used by other companies and sometimes are destroyed because they finally become too old and too soiled to use.  Well, that's not right!!!!  All needlework crafts, crochet, knit, weave, jewelry, stitchers of all kinds can use up these fabulous fibers.  So make sure to visit Affordable Yarns often and help the economy, the ecology and of course me to make a living.

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