[Nfb-krafters-korner] advocate

[Blindhands at aol.com]

You still need to write these letters to let them know if their yarn cannot 
 be pulled out easily.  You need to let them know you are unhappy.   Please 
be sure to let them know which yarn company does it correctly as there  are 
some out there that we have no problem like this.  Focus on the one  thing, 
you want to be able to find that center piece of yarn easily and you want  
to be able to work pulling it easily and ssmoothly.  Don't complain about  
knots at this time, just state that if other companies can do this, then why  
can't they?  It also helps if you add you will have to purchase your yarn  
from the others and wouldn't they consider making some changes to make their 
 customers happier.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 3/31/2013 11:55:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
sunshine817 at cox.net writes:

Joyce, I  have contacted several yarn companies re this very issue! They 
claim that all  manufacturers wind their yarn differently. However, they 
didn't explain how to  remedy the problem. I got the information from a friend 
yesterday who  explained to me about the figure eight that some manufacturers 
use, that when  yarn is buried in the skein in the middle that you pull from 
the end and vice  versa! No one ever explained this sort of thing! As I 
said, I'm working with  yarn right now that had the center piece of yarn buried 
and friends who were  here explained I had to pull from the end. 

It's easy to tell everyone  to go and purchase yarn winders, but when we 
have only so much to spend a  month, we can't have everything we'd like to 
have to make life easier. The  wind-up crank type winder would not work for me 
because of my hands and the  others are very expensive! Smiles!

Again, I have contacted companies,  but the results have been minimal! I've 
had to return yarn that was even  knotted as it unraveled! They were not 
knots I put into it — they were already  there — falty yarn, which I returned 
to the store! Smiles! To advocate is  important and I know of others who 
have done just that but don't receive  comments back or receive very little 
information as I did.  Smiles!

Hugs



----- Original Message -----
From:   Blindhands at aol.com
To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Date: Sunday,  March 31, 2013 9:12 am
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of  yarn

>
>
> The problem with starting from the outside is  that as you work your yarn 
 
> the skein has to turn around   when pulling from the outside.  So it  
doesn't 
> just lay  there still.  
> and pulling from the center not all skeins are  equal with this.  Some  
work 
> well without any  problems.  Some you need to get that rather large  hunk 
> out  of the center  and unravel to locate the beginning of the strand   
and some 
> are so nice and cooperative.  
>  
>  So what can you do.
> 1.  I don't understand why folks don't  express their feelings to the  
yarn 
> companies.
>   
> 2. Go out and purchase the tools to wined your own center pull skeins  
>  
> 3. Live with this Problem?
>  
> Why  not each of us write a letter to a yarn company that we purchase the 
  
> yarn from.  One letter from all of us each month and send it to  a 
different  
> yarn company so we hit a lot of them.  Each of  you who are on a 
different  
> yarn type email list can pass this  suggestion on to that list.  This is 
not  
> a blind issue, it  is a yarn issue.
>  
> Joyce  Kane
>  _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
>  Blindhands at AOL.com   
> 
>  
> In a message  dated 3/30/2013 2:33:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
>  sober512 at earthlink.net writes:
> 
> I had  always started  from the center pull and not the outside. I know 
> better
>  next  time.
> 
> Portia
> 
> 
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