tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728443220995616173.post8903527364322176439..comments2024-03-27T03:53:19.274-04:00Comments on The Knitting Needle and the Damage Done: Yarn, Go Sit In the Corner and Think About What You Are!Orange Swanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882469292993325370noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728443220995616173.post-25675176995000160732013-03-20T12:14:06.506-04:002013-03-20T12:14:06.506-04:00I took my mom to Stitches West, where she fell in ...I took my mom to Stitches West, where she fell in love with some ribbon yarn from (Google-proofing) Te$$'s De$igner Y@rn. Okay, fine, I'll make you a scarf out of it or something, whatever. I should have read the instructions a lot more before I let her buy it.<br /><br />They are INCREDIBLY SPECIFIC as to how to wind the ball of yarn. Like, you are required to use an umbrella swift and nothing but, and watch a video to see how you wind their special snowflake yarn. You have to "shake it out" first. You have to do...I forget all of it. Oh yeah, it'll snag so much you have to use fray check on it too. <br /><br />I TRIED to do it their way, I swear. I borrowed a (shitty, kinda broken) umbrella swift, which I don't normally use because I hate them. I "shook it out," though when I took the yarn out of the bag, it didn't really "shake out" and it wasn't tied well enough that I could loop it around the swift. The swift would not stay up and the yarn wouldn't stay on it, period. <br /><br />The yarn wrapped around the entire swift like a freaking maypole. It tangled and snagged on EVERYTHING, except the part where it was supposed to stay up on the swift. I eventually had to cut the yarn off of the swift because it tangled so badly. And by cut, I mean HACK. It's still a tangled mess.<br /><br />I seriously wonder if I would have even been able to knit with it, either. I did buy some ribbon yarn at a Tuesday Morning one time that was so slippery you couldn't actually use it, and this was reminding me of that. <br /><br />The one good thing in this (other than ruining beautiful but useless yarn) is that my mother tends to forget that she asked me to make something or other, so when I can't come up with this scarf, she'll never notice. Thank god. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com