oh. my. god. i hit Stash Central today. i have a new favourite yarn source. where is this unknown Heaven, you ask?
K-mart. Warned by Clementine that natural, dyeable yarn was on sale and finding myself, quite unusually, in the vicinity of K-Mart I went for a browse. Everything was half price! Which meant the wool/silk blend was $3-something a ball! There were some really nice (for the price - it ain't quite no Calico&Ivy) natural fibre yarns there! Though I didn't find any of that Natural stuff. Everything that was cream looked quite unnatural and treated.

(i also got four cleansing facemasks (masques) if you will, for $6.29 rather than $13; and they had nice bonds wifebeaters for $5. But i was broke by then. Ah, the joys of student life). I love K-mart!