[NFB-Blind-Crafters] Cost of supplies

[carcione at access.net]

Jolene, you’re right that supplies can cost quite a bit.  Maybe we can share lower-cost options.

When my mother passed, we gave a fair bit of her yarn stash to Goodwill. 

I’m part of a cancer support group loosely associated with a local hospital, and they sometimes get yarn donated.

Yarn.com and lionbrandyarn.com are always having sales, especially yarn.com.

Knitpicks.com has some less expensive yarn that is nice, and they have sales, too.

Michaels also has some cheaper yarn.  Now, sometimes cheap yarn is cheap for a reason, but sometimes it’s nice.

 

I don’t know low-cost options for beads.  I’ve bought them from Amazon and Etsy, but they cost something.  I did get a lot, though.

Same with kumihimo and macrame cord.

 

I appreciated the kits Joyce put together for her pony bead classes.  She put all the supplies together, so I only got what I needed in all the right colors.  She also listed the supplies, but I would have gotten lots more than I really wanted if I’d bought them all separately.

Tracy

 

 

From: NFB-Blind-Crafters <nfb-blind-crafters-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jolene Nemeth via NFB-Blind-Crafters
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lol yes air and sunshine are still free until the government decides to tax them too.

there havent been any classes which were for anything that required too many supplies since i have joined. so i cannot attest to that. most classes i saw were knitting or similar which only required yarn but even the price of a skein of yarn has doubled in some cases.

 

 

On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 1:22 AM slery via NFB-Blind-Crafters <nfb-blind-crafters at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfb-blind-crafters at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

"Becky in the stone age writing one or two checks a month, giggle."

Becky is indeed in the stone age. I don't even have checks. The bank sends electronic ones for those that accept and prints paper checks and mails them for me. LOL.
Cindy

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