Knitting guild celebrates the holidays
The Villages Daily Sun - December 7 2006
There was no shame in giving away a gift as soon as it was received. That was to be expected from an event called an ugly yarn exchange.Members of The Villages Knitting Guild selected yarn from their own stashes and wrapped it up prettily before gathering Monday at Churchill Street Center for the exchange.
The thought was that an ornate package could contain some fabulous yarn.
“That’s the assumption,” Anita Shapero of Winifred said. “Anyone who has such good taste couldn’t possibly put in ugly yarn.”
But that was not necessarily the case.
The purpose of the ugly yarn exchange was for knitters to purge their knitting supplies inventory of yarn they wouldn’t use. [more]
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