Yes, I scored some of the highly prized (on Ravelry, anyway) yarn from Germany. Last year it seemed, at least to a casual observer like me, that the shop was updated roughly once a week and often in the wee hours on Friday mornings for those of us in Eastern Daylight Time. Totally understandable since the shop is in Germany, but I was never ambitious enough to get up around 2 a.m. before work on Friday morning and stay up for at least an hour or two for a chance at maybe, possibly snagging some yarn.
Recently, though, there have been some updates at a more reasonable EST time on Saturday mornings, and a couple of weekends ago I was actually at the computer to see one in action. So I bought a couple of grab bags, the first of which I claimed from the Post Office yesterday afternoon - a bag with a pair of 100% Merino superwash skeins in "harmonic shades".
The other grab bag shipped the same day, but hasn't arrived yet, perhaps because it's larger. It's advertised as "All in a tumble! Mixed colourways, not matching" and will include 5 skeins in a 80% superwash merino/20% nylon mix instead.
And yes, my yarn stash is already overflowing, so I won't be sitting with a laptop every Saturday stalking the site for updates. This one Saturday score will give me plenty of Wollmeise yarn to sample and to test the feel of the yarn. The colors are beautiful, but since I won't get all of these skeins knit up right away I'm resisting the urge keep trying for more just because they're hard to get... at least for now. I really need to knit more and shop less, but there are so many beautiful skeins out there!
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