was in my inbox this morning! Is this you, @Ruby Dack

So I wound another cake of yarn for my sweater. This one weighs 188 g. The winder can do 200 g balls but it was starting to get sloppy so I took it off.

12 days ago I asked if anyone weighed their creations and mentioned I couldn’t find my kitchen scale. Thanks to @Tina Bryner and @Susan Weller for their suggestion to stop looking, I would probably find it when I was looking for something else. Well that’s exactly what happened. It was time for me to refill my daily pill container, and when I opened the drawer, all I could say was OMG (2x). I couldn’t believe it was there. I immediately weighed a beanie and took a picture. When I went to post today, the picture looked a little dark. So I tried again today. Every time I put the beanie on the scale I get a different result. Is it worth it to get another? @Kim Thompson-Pinder @Paul Brown what do you use?

Because on Mother’s Day @Kim Thompson-Pinder offered a discount that I couldn’t resist! LOL - that’s partially true. I knew I wanted to become VIP, but it was going to be after I finished going through the free stuff and taking all of the classes. The discount offered just gave me the opportunity to move my timeline up. Since becoming a VIP member, I’ve taken advantage of 1) additional courses and advanced classes, 2) crafting hours with the admin team, etc. But I just discovered something I was missing - see Part 2

(Warning: long story, I’m just typing out my frustration). Found a clerk at Michaels whho was very helpful in pointing to the yarn section where I could find the 3 weight. She cautioned if I was knitting with it, it might be difficult, popular choice was a 4 weight. I respond oh I’m not knitting, I’m going to use my Caydo iCord machine to make cord that I can use to make letters to write a name. A member of my knitting group had shown us cords made with 3 different weights! Then I showed her a picture of the bag, and she said this will be perfect. There weren’t too many color options but she kept looking and came back with Loops & Threads Soft Ombré Plum/Pink/White. It’s a little lighter than I wanted but it might work. It also was more than I typically pay for yarn. She said Michaels has a 25% off on one item, but if you order online you can get 20% off everything but it will take 2-3 hours. I eye my cart and think I need everything now! I had my list from @Julie Findleton to make the elephant and the white yarn to finish the blanket. She says the store is not busy, up front the items could be rung up separately and you can get the 25% off each item. I say that will work and go to check out. It’s now 12:59. Person up front says nope you only get one discount. I say, but she said … he says you can give it a try (I’m at the self check out). Unfortunately, I don’t remember my Michaels’ password and once I finally got in, the 25% discount was only for people who hadn’t previously requested to receive text messages. I stand there for a minute trying to decide if there was one thing I could get now? I looked at the clerk and said forget it, I’ll just place the order online so I can get the 20% discount. He says it will take 30 minutes to process. I ask why? Everything I want is already in my cart. He says but it has to be processed. At this time I don’t know if I gave him the evil eye or just looked pitiful. He says, come on over, I’ll ring it up! S(time is now 1:15). I did say thank you and have a great day, but was thinking you just went 15 minutes into Campbell’s nap time and my knitting time. If I didn’t like the convenience of their location, only 3 miles away, I wouldn’t go back unless online ordering was down. I did save $11.35 that I will contribute to Campbell’s college fund because she so patiently hung out with her Grandma.