Just after Christmas, Carl took a jaunt out to Prince Edward County to check on our pretty little house (church, actually) in the country. 
Besides finding it predictably cold and lonely without us, Carl found a plastic bag over the door knob, a bag with interesting and mysterious contents <dun dun DUN>!
To this day, I don’t know who left it but I can tell you that the bag was filled with yarn, twelve skeins of something called Patons Cotton Top, white, and in perfect, brand-new condition. Honestly, they look like they’ve just left the store…no funny attic or thrift store smells.
A quick online search yielded few details. Paton’s notoriously archaic website had zip, nuttin’. One intrepid Etsy seller had a few skeins of this apparently ‘vintage’ yarn and listed the content as 100% cotton, but the tried-and-true flame test did not bear this out. I think it’s composed of a fluffy cotton fiber wound, boucle-style, around a synthetic core. Near as I can figure, Paton’s manufactured this yarn in Great Britain in the 1970’s/80’s and distributed it through Susan Bates here in North America. I’ve emailed Paton’s and received an auto-reply message assuring me that I was ‘important’ and that they’d get back to me in about 3 days (?) I wonder what they’re doin’ over there?
Any-hoo, what’s a girl with an acute case of ‘start-itis’ to do but swatch ‘er up? You know, I kind of like it! It’s very fluffy and light and lofty, unlike pure cotton which generally feels a lot heavier in the hand. I’m thinking it will make a great top-down raglan sweater for spring, very unstructured with no ribbing and that little curl on the edges that usually happens by accident. ….uh-oh… I feel more stockinette stitch coming on…
Laura
Weird. The Ravelry yarn database says it’s 100% cotton, too. It sure looks soft and cuddly!
But I really want to hear about your church in the country. How neat! Did you do the remodeling yourselves??