Gagetown yarn sale weaves historic yarn for Loomcrofters museum

It's quite the yarn to tell about yarn.

The Queens County Heritage group offered up about 1,400 pounds of yarn for sale in Gagetown over the weekend, leftover stock from the historic Loomcrofters studio, all in a kaleidoscope of colours and textures.

For Shirley Hughes, it's not the sight of all the yarn she finds so impressive, it's the smell.

"I smell it and I just love it," she said. "It makes me happy. It makes me feel, you know, in that happy place."

People came from all over the province to the sale, a chance to choose from yarn used by the historic Loomcrofters studio. Some of it is over 50 years old.

Bruce Thompson has been working to preserve the materials for the Queens County Heritage group.

"Never in a million years will we be able to use all the material that's here," he said. "So we thought we would take the opportunity to share these materials with the public."

Jennifer Randall was glad they did.

"It's very overwhelming," she said. "There's a lot of different things. There's a lot of picking and sorting."

The sale raised about $2,300 towards the Loomcrofters museum. The building was relocated last December to public property and will open its doors to visitors in mid-June.

It's expected $90,000 will be needed for the museum project and Thompson says the group is 80 percent of the way there.

Sunday's sale was meant to be a one time only event, but was such a success another sale is planned for the end of May.