Since I started knitting over winter break, I’ve been keeping an eye on eBay for inexpensive supplies - needles, yarn, fabric for knitting bags, that sort of thing. I’ve only bought a couple of skeins of yarn so far, but it’s the big collections that really fascinate me. You often find these big lots containing dozens of pairs of needles still in their kitschy original packaging from fifty years ago. Sometimes people are selling their own collections, but usually you can tell that they’ve inherited a bunch of stuff from a grandma or aunt or something - especially the color of the needles is described in painstaking detail, but there’s no mention of the size.

Anyway, yesterday I finished another draft of my thesis and another scarf. Now I’m back to hitting up eBay for more cheap yarn.