Look at all this lovely yarn.  All this was acquired from the lovely Linda, whose lovely grandmother has (or had?) a yarn shop and who periodically brings over big bags of yarn.  This time I also acquired fabric and a preposterous quantity of embroidery cottons.  Before hurting my brain thinking about what to do with those, I sat down and wound up all the knittables into balls.

Just look at all that!  I’m still considering what to do with it all.  In amongst the bag of treasures, I found this Anchor embroidery wool.  What is interesting about this treasure is the weight: 36.46 Grains.  I have never seen anything with a weight expressed in grains before.  I didn’t even know that this was a measure of weight.  I had to ask Google about it – apparently one grain is the weight of a grain of barley.  I have no idea when people stopped measuring yarn weights in grains, but I’d hazard a guess that this is quite an old item of haberdashery.