My mother works part time at an antique store come lunch dinette back where I grew up. And because she is an employee she gets to peak through all the goodies that come in. And recently a wooden crate came in that was full of yarn. The antique box sold quickly but the yarn got tossed aside.
Most of it was really old squeaky acrylic but she found a few skeins of actual wool and decided to grab them for me. This is Pace by Universal Yarns and it’s fingering weight made of 75/25 wool to nylon blend. And with five skeins this is just over 1,000 yards in the chocolate color. And I can tell that someone got this yarn at Tuesday Morning.
Will I knit with this? I really don’t know. It doesn’t feel bad when I squish the skein and the color isn’t terrible. But it doesn’t really grab me as yarn that says “knit me now!”. So after a careful freezer and heat cycle to kill any weird hitchhikers I will tuck this into my stash for a rainy day. Or maybe I’ll list it as willing to trade on Ravelry. I’m just happy my momma knows the way to my heart!
Happy Knitting!!
My Tangled Yarn Knitting Adventures 
Perhaps you could overdye it to make a color more to your liking.
Should all wool go through the freezer heat cycle? Im new to knitting and have never done this
No, it’s not necessary for all wool. I only do it on skeins where I’m not sure they came from. I trust yarn store and craft stores and the like. It’s a better safe than sorry with basically a thrift store purchase
had not heard of that either. cold and heat treatment
The cold makes any bug eggs hibernate and then the heat wakes them up and then as it gets really hot they die
How do you conduct the heat cycle?
In the summer I put it in a black trash bag and then leave it in my trunk on a hot day. For the winter I think I’ll use the sweater rack in my dryer and zap it in there (not spinning of course)
What a neat find! Even if you never use it, your Mom was thinking of you 🙂
I’m not sure I could survive a project that’s 1000 yards of brown!!! I need color! 🙂