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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Jolene, you\u2019re right that supplies can cost quite a bit. Maybe we can share lower-cost options.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>When my mother passed, we gave a fair bit of her yarn stash to Goodwill. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I\u2019m part of a cancer support group loosely associated with a local hospital, and they sometimes get yarn donated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Yarn.com and lionbrandyarn.com are always having sales, especially yarn.com.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Knitpicks.com has some less expensive yarn that is nice, and they have sales, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Michaels also has some cheaper yarn. Now, sometimes cheap yarn is cheap for a reason, but sometimes it\u2019s nice.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I don\u2019t know low-cost options for beads. I\u2019ve bought them from Amazon and Etsy, but they cost something. I did get a lot, though.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Same with kumihimo and macrame cord.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>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\u2019d bought them all separately.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Tracy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> NFB-Blind-Crafters <nfb-blind-crafters-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jolene Nemeth via NFB-Blind-Crafters<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 7, 2026 1:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> List for Blind Crafters and Artists <nfb-blind-crafters@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Jolene Nemeth <radar500@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFB-Blind-Crafters] Ideas<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>lol yes air and sunshine are still free until the government decides to tax them too.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 1:22<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>\u202f</span>AM slery via NFB-Blind-Crafters <<a href="mailto:nfb-blind-crafters@nfbnet.org">nfb-blind-crafters@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>"Becky in the stone age writing one or two checks a month, giggle."</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>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.<br>Cindy<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>NFB-Blind-Crafters mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NFB-Blind-Crafters@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">NFB-Blind-Crafters@nfbnet.org</a><br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-blind-crafters_nfbnet.org" target="_blank">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-blind-crafters_nfbnet.org</a><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFB-Blind-Crafters:<br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-blind-crafters_nfbnet.org/radar500%40gmail.com" target="_blank">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-blind-crafters_nfbnet.org/radar500%40gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>