I am happy to report that Knit Picks not only has great yarn at fabulous prices, but they also have one of the very best customer service departments!  I called them first thing this morning and explained my crazy situation to the nice woman who answered the phone.  She was aware of the problem with the catalog and internet site, but wanted to check with her supervisor regarding what the company was going to do about it.  Could she call me back? 

She called back within 10 minutes or so saying that they would be sending me all four skeins right away!  Remember – the error in yardage would only have covered one skein’s worth of yarn, the rest of my problem was due to a pattern error and not Knit Picks.  They are being especially wonderful and I am an especially satisfied customer!

Thank you to everyone for your kind comments about my game of bumper cars yesterday.  I really and truly am fine – but I will be sure to keep an eye on things and not push myself if anything does start to ache. 

Onslow is another story.  ::sniff::

He is at the body shop as we speak.  I spoke with the insurance adjuster today and they will be going there tomorrow for a look at Onlsow.

Did you ever see the Seinfeld episode where Elaine is dating that guy all for his good looks and then he is in some kind of climbing accident and she is trying to be all noble, saying that she will still love him despite his terrible disfigurement?

well, I hope that isn’t going to be me. 

I love Onslow.  He has a great personality.  He is a swell guy.  But I am in it for his looks (and of course what he packs under his hood!).  ; )

I am happy to report that Knit Picks not only has great yarn at fabulous prices, but they also have one of the very best customer service departments!  I called them first thing this morning and explained my crazy situation to the nice woman who answered the phone.  She was aware of the problem with the catalog and internet site, but wanted to check with her supervisor regarding what the company was going to do about it.  Could she call me back? 

She called back within 10 minutes or so saying that they would be sending me all four skeins right away!  Remember – the error in yardage would only have covered one skein’s worth of yarn, the rest of my problem was due to a pattern error and not Knit Picks.  They are being especially wonderful and I am an especially satisfied customer!

Thank you to everyone for your kind comments about my game of bumper cars yesterday.  I really and truly am fine – but I will be sure to keep an eye on things and not push myself if anything does start to ache. 

Onslow is another story.  ::sniff::

He is at the body shop as we speak.  I spoke with the insurance adjuster today and they will be going there tomorrow for a look at Onlsow.

Did you ever see the Seinfeld episode where Elaine is dating that guy all for his good looks and then he is in some kind of climbing accident and she is trying to be all noble, saying that she will still love him despite his terrible disfigurement?

well, I hope that isn’t going to be me. 

I love Onslow.  He has a great personality.  He is a swell guy.  But I am in it for his looks (and of course what he packs under his hood!).  ; )

Onslow has a boo-boo.  Thank goodness he is the only one!

I was making a left hand turn at a light on a very busy road and this woman came (from out of nowhere!) and clipped us on the rear passenger side. 

I swear to God, she was driving like a bat out of hell.

Even Daughter #2 said she didn’t see her until she was on top of us.

Thankfully all are okay and all have insurance.

Onslow is smushed.

::sniff::

In other bad news:  I do not have enough suede to finish my Clapotis.  Thanks to some very helpful emails from Mindy, I have determined that this is also not my fault! (see above).  It seems that everyone is running short.  The pattern says it used 3 skeins at 205 yds/skein.  Mindy reports that Clapotis is taking 700-750 yds.  Not only do I not have enough suede to finish Clapotis #1, the Andean Silk Twist that I ordered from Knit Picks for Clapotis #2 will not be enough.  I ordered 6 skeins. Further complicating this situation is that Knit Picks put the wrong yardage on their website and in their catalog.  The yarn actually has 96 yards/skein but was stated to have 110 yds/skein.  I read on a Live Journal site that Knit Picks customer service was fabulous and sent two skeins for free when she encountered the same problem. 

So here we have an innocent knitter who is using a pattern understating the amounts required, not ordering enough yarn, combined with a yarn company overstating the amount of yarn per skein! 

Knit Picks has shorted me one skein’s worth of yardage.  In another case, they sent someone two skeins to make good on their mistake.  But I need three skeins to make this project.  Technically I need three, but I really want four — don’t want to be caught short again!

are you following all of this?  do you see how none of this is my fault?

How will this turn out?  I would be happy just to not have to pay shipping.

what do we have here?  It’s birthday yarn!!  When My Boar asked what I would like for my birthday (more along the lines of Saturday evening during the blizzard saying, ‘Crap! It’s your birthday on Monday – I haven’t gotten you anything’), I told him not to worry about it, I was planning on ordering a bunch of yarn.

The first picture on the left is yarn for the Fry Up Knitalong.  This is from Knit Picks and is their Wool of the Andes.  Have you seen the great prices on this stuff?  Only $1.79 for 50 grams and if you order over $30, shipping is free ….. how can they do this?

The middle shot is also yarn from Knit Picks.  On the left is Andean Silk Twist in the Pumpkin Patch colorway.  This is destined to become another Clapotis – although I have checked gauge and yardage, I am concerned that I didn’t order enough.    The striped yarn in the middle is Simple Stripes – a self striping superwash for socks.  I ordered the Storm and Snapdragon colors.  My sock yarn collection is growing and I better start knitting some of it soon!  On the right side is more Wool of the Andes in the color Fern.  I have failed to mention that I received the book Scarf Style by Pam Allen for Christmas – the fern is for the pattern Backyard Leaves by Annie Modesitt.

The picture on the right …. well that is yarn on the cone that I ordered from Webs it is Valley Yarns Brora Soft Spun.  I screwed up and thought I was ordering 1 cone (which in this case are 2.2 lbs).  What I actually ordered is 1 pound.  I bought this without knowing what I would do with it, but felt certain that whatever it was, 2.2 pounds would be plenty.  Now I have 1 pound.  Will that be enough?  How would I even know considering I don’t have any plans for this wool yet?  Which leads to the question, do I order more? 

rephrase: do I order more yarn since I don’t know how much I’ll need for the project I don’t know I’m making?   

is anyone else out there this ridiculous?