KnitPicks.com?

I just placed my first order with knickpicks because I couldn't resist the pricing for some of their yarns. Has anyone ordered from them before and if so, how was the quality? The prices seem very low to me for some of the wools especially.

Padishar Creel "always increasing his stash to extend his life."

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Padishar Creel
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I've found them to be very nice. They have great prices and generally good service.

sue

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suzee

I have always had good luck with Knitpicks. Which yarn did you order? I did a sort of trial order of one of each type of wool last year. My favorite was Elegance (baby alpaca and silk) - I made this into a wonderfully soft scarf. I also got Wool of the Andes (a little scratchy but no more than most wools); Merino Style (pretty soft, I made another scarf); Andean Silk (alpaca, silk and merino, a little bit tickly); Andean Treasure (baby alpaca, also very soft). My new favorite for summer is Shine Worsted which I have used for a facecloth and am considering for a summer top.

Alison not affiliated etc.

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Alison

I've only bought sock yarns from them, mostly to play with as I try to find/develop the perfect crocheted sock pattern.

The Knitpicks yarn Simple Stripes is lovely with the South Bay Crochet toes-up pattern found at

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.The ordering and shipping was pain-free. They'll have my business for a long time.

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Threnody

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:43:13 GMT, Threnody spewed forth :

Hey, you're surviving three kids!

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Wooly

Yeah. Somehow. I'm even working on a sock and took some time out for the Yarn Harlot with my mother last week while Darling Hubby watched all three of the kids.

We've been joking that we've gone from man-to-man defense to zone. The switch from one to two was nothing. Two to three is mind-bogglingly crazy and intense. The five year old helps entertain the two year old while I mess with the seven week old, but the fact remains that there are still diapers, laundry, meals and edutainment to offer up on a never-ending basis. Add in a husband who is being overly cuddly (I've upped the ante; if I put out, I get merino laceweight instead of just sock yarn now), and I have very little time to myself. The outing last week did me worlds of good.

Half the time I feel like my cheese is sliding off my cracker a little bit. I expect at some rather-soonish point DH is going to come home and I'm going to be hiding under the couch in the fetal position, curled up around a ball of laceweight and babbling about short, angry monkeys who are trying to take over the world, or at least my stash. (One of them already managed to unwind a ball of Bavarian wool and drag half of it into the bathroom, then dropped it in front of the cat litter box, where one of the fuzzy twits decided to spinkle it with scoopable litter. I'm devising a plan to wash the wool and restrain all those involved in its soiling.)

We found out a week or so ago that we got the mortgage we were after, so we're officially having a house built in a subdivision up in Taylor. That's about 25 minutes north-east of us, and every few days I pile all three kids up in the Urban Assault Vehicle to go look at the empty ex-cotton field and daydream. The kids are bored by it. Sometimes they all sleep. I leave the car running with the A/C and I stand out in the field and sneak a cigarette and listen to the nothingness of it all out there. I've missed living in the country, and this is as close as I'm going to get for a while longer, but it feels really, really good to be heading out of the big town.

Speaking of cotton... whoa. That town is nothing but the bellybutton on the Great Cotton Beast of America. Little bolls drift around across the roads, and I'm loving it. I've been threatening DH that one of these nights I'm going to take a big burlap sack and a flashlight and filch some of the drifting stuff to bring home and gin/dye/spin. He, of course, thinks I'm out of my gourd. Only crocheters could understand the need to mess with cotton; it's like wool to knitters of sweaters.

Pure. That's the word for it. Pure everything. Pure beauty, pure love, pure enjoyment.

Ugh. One of the small angry monkeys just abandoned "Alice in Wonderland" to come out and babble at me about Dora the Explorer. Time to find that laceweight.

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Threnody

Hi Threnody, you describe it al so poetically I felt I was there in the wind and the silence! Thank you for this happy moment! Good luck with all your dreams and your beautiful family! Sofia D

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Magie Noire

I ordered sock yarns from KnitPicks back in May They were fine yarns. I have only a few minor complaints:

1.I found one knot in both skeins of Dancing. 2.I was surprised that Essential was so thin. 3.I find that the socks I knitted with Parade and Simple Stripes are slightly scratchy, but I have atopic dermatitis, so that's me.

But regardless, I think their yarn's wonderful.

On a funnier note: They sent me a notice with the Parade about the fact that the gauge on the label was incorrect. The funny thing is that they mentioned "Parade following yarn." I can just imagine yarn running after the parade....

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Celitmarifia Tricoter

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:50:29 GMT, Threnody spewed forth :

I have endless respect and admiration for anyone crazy enough to spawn more than one. Honestly. If I had two I'd be crazy, even though I think they'd probably entertain each other a good part of the time - sort of like cats, right?

Again, endless respect and admiration here...

Sounds like a plan to me!

A friend of mine views Barney as her "poop-sitter". She plugs in a Barney video and is able to spend 10-15 uninterrupted minutes in the bathroom: sitting down, showering, changing her hygiene products, whatever. I personally can't stand Barney, but whatever works...

A daily feeling here, as well. My husband has been standing in my computer room doorway for the past 20 minutes describing to me a

5-minute scene from a movie I've already seen. I'm running on 6 hours of sleep because I couldn't get to sleep last night and I was up early today to take friends to the airport for their flight to vacationland. There is no cracker, and the cheese is liquifying in this heat...

I expect at some rather-soonish point DH is going to come home and

*chuckle*

*grrrr*

Taylor won't be "out of town" for long at the rate things are going. High insulation factor is the key, since you're moving into what is otherwise barren ground with nary a tree for miles and miles...

If you want cotton I've got cotton: ready to spin sliver in assorted natural colors; ginned Sea Island cotton, ready to card into punis and spin. I've got a support spindle and bowl for you, as well, or if you're feeling especially flush we can maybe make a deal on my engineer-designed-and-built charkha, or I can teach you to make one from a cigar box and a few paperclips.

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Wooly

On 7 Aug 2006 23:26:02 -0700, "Padishar Creel" spewed forth :

I view KP as the Walmart of the yarn world. I don't think my LYSs (plural) will be going out of business because of KP, and KP is sometimes the only alternative to Walmart for peeps liviing in the Middle of Nowhere and provides an affordable source of natural-fiber yarns for folks on skinny budgets (which ought to describe me, but I'm SABLEd, thanks).

I won't give KP any of my buiness. I'll mail-order yarn, but not from them, so call me a hypocrite if you will, but I feel like KP is subsidizing the South American yarn equivalent of Kathy's Kids products (remember the scandal about her Walmart clothing line being made by SE Asian sweatshop kids working for pennies per day?).

Run-on sentences, anyone?

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Wooly

If you can mail order from KP, then you can mail order from many other places as well.

I will not say anything bad about Wal-Mart, but I will not say anything good about them either.

Aaron

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<agres

I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying the South American yarn is made in sweat shops by kids? Could you expand on what your thoughts are on this company and why you dislike them so much? I haven't ordered yarn from KP yet, simply because I have this huge stash to work on. One of the women in our knitting group was knitting with their laceweight Alpaca Cloud the other day, and it was beautiful. Now THAT is a yarn I would consider buying.

I wonder how much yarn in the LYS's is North American made. I've seen lovely Kroy sock yarn that comes from Turkey. Other yarns seem to come from pretty much every country on earth... I have some soy silk made in China, balls of stuff made in Italy, stuff from Scandanavia..... etc etc.

Shelagh

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Shillelagh

I believe KPs goes directly to villages and buys it from wool cooperatives - the story is on their website. Malabrigo, Hand Painted Yarn and an ebay seller, Serendipity in South America, are all the same yarn at different pricing, and also buy direct from the producers, just marketed differently.

sue

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suzee

At least you weren't convinced that your "baby days" were over and had given away the last of your remaining baby stuff about a year before having a "surprise" baby at age 38. Talk about a shock to the system. Having the older ones being 11 and 7, and bringing a new baby into the house was an extreme juggling act. It didn't really get any better until my son got his driver's license a year and a half ago, and his car about a year ago; at that point I was able to have him run errands for me and take his younger sister to kung fu. Schlepping the kids to school - three different schools, in opposite directions - and activities - kung fu, Scouts, choir, drama, day camps - takes up a ridiculous amount of time. I took about a 4-year break from any serious needlework until the youngest was in school.

Congrats on the mortgage and new house! The area sounds nice. And as for your husband thinking you're crazy for wanting to take some of that lovely cotton, just tell him it's cheaper than therapy

The Other Kim kimagreenfieldatyahoodotcom

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The Other Kim

Exactly -- mine were 12 and 8 --- but it was a long time ago. They are now 43, 39, and almost 31. Judy

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