Am participating in an interesting exchange about needlepoint yarns on the Facebook page Discount Needlework: Which is your favorite wool needlepoint yarn?.
I've learned of a brand, new to me, of my preferred three-ply wool yarn that doesn't want to deal with web-only based companies (get with the program, folks!), so their products aren't available to me.
I'd need to see and feel a sample, anyway.
Let me tell you what happened....More......
A few years ago, having a chance to return to the States for a visit, one of the top things on the list--after "hug relatives"--was "buy Paternayan yarns," already having the great StitchPainter program up and happily running on my computer.
Not familiar with that part of of town, I even had done my "let your fingers do the walking for stores selling Paterayan yarn in the area" work on the internet, prior to departure (Cosmos bless the internet). Found the store pretty easily, was in 7th heaven once again surrounded by walls of variously colored yarns. So much choice, such availability.
"I'd like a good handful of the following Paternayan yarn numbers, please." Having no time to waste, I also had done a census of my stock at home, and made "Need" and "Want" lists before leaving (the distinction partially based on the state-o'-the-wallet-of-the-moment).
"Oh," (eyes lighting for the kachink-kachink-kachink of the cash register floating before her eyes), "great...here...here...here...here...and here. That will be $XXX.XX, please, thank you, goodbye, do come again!"
And out the door I went, so happy to have guaranteed postage- and risk-of-loss-free stitching for the months to come.
Only that, when I got home thousands of miles away, and started pulling them out, feeling them, looking at them more closely (it is such a bother to have to pull out my reading glasses every other minute...the next time I have to renew them, I'm going to take the plunge, and try graduated lenses, despite everyone's horror stories about how hard it is to adapt), they weren't Paternayan.
I won't cite the company's name.
I'm sure it's a perfectly good brand.
It's just that their three-ply yarns are a bit thicker than Paternayan, but I could have put up with that.
What really really bugs me (gives me shivers of revulsion, even) is the very unpleasant slippery feel.
Like they're kinda slimey in a dry sort of way.
Maybe it helps the yarn slide through the small holes of the canvas, but...
Yuck.
So, web-based only yarn stores, beware. I want a free sample (even half of one strand will do) before buying something new.
P.S., since I talk about two brands in particular, StitchPainter and Paternayan, it's probably a good idea to remind everyone that I get no kickbacks, or payments, of any kind. Just speakin' my mind (oh, that feels good, doesn't it?!).
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