It’s a cruel fact of the yarn business that no matter how many skeins of each colorway you dye, there will always be one or two left over. It is a further fact that sometimes things go all wonky in the dye pot and you end up with one wackadoo skein of yarn that doesn’t matches the others from the same lot even a little bit. We call these perfectly lovely skeins the Widows and Orphans.

And when the Widows and Orphans pile grows larger than the desk in our office and threatens to crush Paige in an avalanche of wool and mohair we have a sale!

Here’s the dealio: For $40 you get four skeins of our lovely, farm-raised, hand-dyed yarn chosen by us at random, just like the September Surprise Sale. No special requests please! Now, just to keep things interesting, two Widows & Orphans boxes will receive five skeins of yarn instead of four. We’ll put all the orders in a hat and draw two at random. (Since we only have 14 boxes for sale the odds are pretty good.)

If history tells us anything these boxes will be gone by end of business today so don’t wait to get yours. Click here to purchase.