Crocheters- Singing the praises of Wool Warehouse again!
Feb 25, 2016 17:27:24 GMT
HelenaJole, jeremysgirl, and 1 more like this
Post by elaine on Feb 25, 2016 17:27:24 GMT
So, I purchased a kit to crochet Lily Pond from Wool Warehouse when they had a sale a month or two ago.
I started it over the weekend. I needed some further explanation on one of the blocks, so I looked up the designer's website - her name is Janie Crow/Jane Crowfoot (differences between her name on Ravlery and her blog). It is fairly complex but beautiful!
Anyhow, she has a newer afghan on her website that I decided that I MUST make - Persian Tiles
It it is made with Stylecraft DK. Her website sells kits of Stylecraft Life DK - 12 balls of yarn. Great, I thought. Put it in my cart and it says that I earned free shipping - even better! But, I guess that is only in the UK, as at checkout my cart had a £17.99/$25 shipping charge. Um, no. I decided to just buy the pattern - which isn't available for download - just paper copy - and still had to pay £3.15/$4.40 just to ship that.
Now, she doesn't list the colors in the kit, and I don't have the pattern yet, so I look around the Internet. I found another UK site that had kits for the blanket, but they wanted even more for shipping - £19.99! The good news is that they listed each of the colors in the kit and how many balls of each.
I went over to Wool Warehouse and put all the balls in my cart, and not only did the yarn end up being less than the kits being sold at other sites, shipping to me was only£2.99/$4.17!
I love Wool Warehouse!
I started it over the weekend. I needed some further explanation on one of the blocks, so I looked up the designer's website - her name is Janie Crow/Jane Crowfoot (differences between her name on Ravlery and her blog). It is fairly complex but beautiful!
Anyhow, she has a newer afghan on her website that I decided that I MUST make - Persian Tiles
It it is made with Stylecraft DK. Her website sells kits of Stylecraft Life DK - 12 balls of yarn. Great, I thought. Put it in my cart and it says that I earned free shipping - even better! But, I guess that is only in the UK, as at checkout my cart had a £17.99/$25 shipping charge. Um, no. I decided to just buy the pattern - which isn't available for download - just paper copy - and still had to pay £3.15/$4.40 just to ship that.
Now, she doesn't list the colors in the kit, and I don't have the pattern yet, so I look around the Internet. I found another UK site that had kits for the blanket, but they wanted even more for shipping - £19.99! The good news is that they listed each of the colors in the kit and how many balls of each.
I went over to Wool Warehouse and put all the balls in my cart, and not only did the yarn end up being less than the kits being sold at other sites, shipping to me was only£2.99/$4.17!
I love Wool Warehouse!
Wool Warehouse. I ordered some yarn at around 4 in the afternoon and I had it in my eager little hands the following morning, their service is incredible. 
