really?

This company can charge $72 for 3 felted COASTERS???? REALLY? I am clearly in the wrong business.

Now they are quite cute as you can see here:


I mean, they have the nifty "five green stitches" which are kind of cool and asymmetrical and then there is the little grommet so you can loop them all together or something. But these really do seem incredibly over priced. (Especially because they have a little disclaimer saying that these coasters are not appropriate for setting a tea kettle on DESPITE THE PHOTO.)

And yet, they clearly seem to sell! I have heard of this brand before on numerous web-blogs and they are having a sample sale at the Fort Mason Center today. Are the hipster-yuppies aka huppies that well off and/or that lacking in knowledge of a basic craft that used to be a mandatory skill just 50 years ago that they will pay this much for a circle that has been thrown in the washing machine?

Now I am no knitting master, but I have been known to pick up ye olde needles once and awhile, so maybe there is something more to these than meets the eye?

I sincerely doubt it.

In other news, happy Saturday all!