Ok it was planned shopping but still...
I bought copper pipe to build a better tablet loom. Cost was about $25 more than I had planned on. I knew that was possible due to the metals market increase but was hoping not quite that much. While I was there I picked up dowels to make a backstrap loom.
Tried to find some #3 cotton crochet yarn, though not much luck. Not a whole lot of craft/art options here. 3 Wal-Mart's but only one has a tiny craft section. They had 3 colors, total of 5 balls, so I closed my eyes and bought 2 colors, 3 balls. Not enough to do much more than sample but I can see how I like this weight. The yarn I ordered in when I bought my inkle loom is thinner. Proper weaving yarn in #3 I have to order by the pound and that was way more than I want.
I went to the quilt shop(it's a pharmacy of all things, with thousands of bolts of wonderful quilting fabric and smallish selection other crafty odds and ends. It's a wonderful place.) hoping they would have some as I remembered they have about 10' shelving of yarn. All they had was crochet thread though. They do have a full line of embroidery supplies though so I picked up some DMC floss. I can weave or braid with it. I also poked through there huge selection of threads and picked up a spool of rayon thread to play with.
That's it for my semi-local shopping options so I'll be satisfied with my selection. It's not like I have tons of free time anyway.
I'm off to tend to my milk. I'm making a gallon of yogurt. We just love homemade yogurt.
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