Swamp Sale/CONTEST WINNER!

On Sunday, you would have found me walking through the grocery store (pre-game) with a smug smile on my face. "Why?" you ask. Because I had just come from the Coldwater Collaborative's annual Superbowl sale. (I was there CKSknitter. I was so there.) All of these non-knitters walkin' around the produce section like their some big stuff. Hoo hoo! Little do they know about the seething underworld of neurotic knitters. (Level 4 knitters for Yarn Harlot fans).

Here's the irony. I bought yarn that was NOT on sale. I know. Laugh if you will, but I've been stalking this yarn for about a year now. It's obnoxious, it's hideously bright and it spoke to me. So here it is in all it's 1980 colors - enjoy. Colinette's Jitterbug in "Popsicle"

Do you want to know something? I actually hate sales like this. It brings out the worst in people. It's like those garage sale ladies that show up at your house at 6:30 am and start bargaining over old socks. Grrrrr. So I'm standing at a bin of some yarn called Araucania Ranco Multy (sock yarn). It's not a large bin. Just your standard 1 x 2 foot bin. I'm digging around in it looking for the most beautiful skein in the world when a woman comes up and starts digging, too! I mean . . . it was awkward. I was clearly there, not wearing my invisibilty cloak and actively looking through the pile and her hands were shoving yarns back into the hole I had created. I almost resorted to violence. I almost socked her (I really did not intend to make such a horrible pun). Are you one of those ladies!? Come on, people.

So do you know what I did? I grabbed a skein the color of swamp and gasped as if I had just found a little piece of heaven. I clutched the puke colored yarn to my breast and sighed loudly. Then I gaily turned on my heels and flounced my way to the register. I bought it. Who's laughing now, garage-sale lady? Who's laughing now. oh brother.

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Thank you all so so much for entering the contest! It was fun to read all of your comments and guesses. AND you broke a record - 18 comments is the most I've ever had.

CKSknitter is the official winner with her guess of "On Blueberry Hill". We had two "Blueberry" guesses and drew her name from a hat - actually, I held the names behind my back and had my five year old pick a hand. CKSknitter, contact me with your address so I can mail you your prize: rarnarATgmailDOTcom.
THE ACTUAL NAME OF IMAGINE KNIT'S KMNCraft yarn is "Blueberry Pie". Northern Minnesota is a wild blueberry haven. Ely has a blueberry festival every year. This yarn look exactly like a bowl of wild blueberries with the pink you see on the tops of berries and the purple stains on your fingers.