DeBella Mills Miracle Thin Vintage Acrylic — Lavender & Grey 13 One-Ounce Cakes, ~10 oz / 2,800 yd Lace

A color-grouped Cabinet lot of vintage DeBella Mills “Miracle Thin” acrylic in a lavender & grey palette — soft lavender, heathered light grey, a deep charcoal, and one cream. Wound into compact 1-ounce pull cakes, each still wearing its original Gastonia-NC mill band stamped “Mix colors like an artist — mixes paints!” and the printed 1990s retail price of $1.25 per ounce. We are honoring that sticker. This is genuine mill deadstock from a Carolina house long since shuttered.

This listing is for a single matched lot of 13 one-ounce cakes in the Lavender & Grey family, new with band, sold together as one bundle. Cake counts are photographed as shipped; if a cake is missing from the band’s color group we note it in the photos.

About the yarn.

• Maker: DeBella Mills — Gastonia, North Carolina (mill closed)
• Yarn line: Miracle Thin (Plain Tinker System ® Debbie Mills)
• Fibre: 100% acrylic
• Construction: single ply, fine — designed to be held at 1, 2, 3, or 4 strands
• Weight class on a single strand: lace (~280 yd / 1 oz)
• Plain Tinker System (from the band):
  • Single strand — lace / “All Crafts”
  • 2 strands — baby / fingering, 210 yd / oz, US 3 needles / D hook
  • 3 strands — sportweight, 140 yd / oz, US 5 needles / F hook
  • 4 strands — worsted, 70 yd / oz, US 7 needles / H hook
• Cakes in this lot: 13
• Total weight: ~13 oz 
• Total yardage: ~3,640 yd held single (lace) · ~910 yd held as worsted four-ply
• Care (per band): machine wash lukewarm with Downy, lay flat to dry; do not tumble
• Condition: new with original band, vintage deadstock

About this yarn. Miracle Thin was a small-mill experiment from Gastonia’s acrylic-spinning era — one fine single- ply strand, sold with a fold-out instruction band that walked you through holding 1/2/3/4 plies together to swap weight on the fly. The system was designed by Debbie Mills (DeBella Mills) under the “Plain Tinker System®” trademark and shipped with a hand-written color-number slip stapled to the band. The acrylic is fine, springy, and resolutely matte — closer in hand to a vintage fingering wool than to modern bulky craft acrylic. Original retail was $1.25 per ounce; the few cakes that ever escaped the mill carry a stamped red sticker with that price. We list this group at the printed price out of respect for the system that shipped with it.

Hold it single for fine-gauge colourwork, stranded toques, or miniature lace; hold it doubled for socks and baby cardigans; or pull all four plies through your hands for a 1990s-bright worsted that behaves like a museum specimen of small-mill American acrylic. There is no longer a place to reorder.

 

Quick reference: Color: Lavender & Grey — soft lavender, heathered light grey, a deep charcoal, and one cream · Yarn weight: Lace · Thickness: Lace · Fiber: 100% acrylic · Skein weight: 28 g