{"id":1502,"date":"2011-07-30T23:09:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T06:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2011-08-03T07:51:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T14:51:36","slug":"advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ordered some yarn online over the last month or two. First, I ordered Senke from MacKintosh<\/a> yarn. Then I ordered Milkweed from Handwerks Textiles<\/a> and finally Teal Mist and Robin Hood from Barking Dog yarn<\/a>.
\nI had different experiences with each of these shops. Two great and one not so good. Here are the stories.
\nSenke was ordered on 6\/18. Everyone on Ravelry seems to really like Liz’s yarn and she had the best colorway selections of her yarn on her site, so I decided to get it straight from her. It finally arrived on 7\/13. Now, I don’t mind waiting a few weeks for yarn to ship provided I’ve been informed of this. I emailed Liz three different times asking for a status on my yarn and never received a reply. She got a tracking number on 6\/29, but the yarn was not actually mailed until 7\/11. So, no matter what it looked like when it got here, I was going to be irritated with the yarn. It couldn’t possibly look good enough for me to be happy to wait in silence for almost a month. If you really want MacKintosh yarn, my advice is to buy from a reseller.
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\nI ordered the yarn from Suzan of Barking Dog Yarns on a Sat. and it was here within a week. The Teal Mist (Achilles) is amazing. I wasn’t as crazy about the Robin Hood (Achilles), so I emailed her nicely about being interested in something more forest green and she had me mail it back and she’s shipped me something darker. Totally nice and GREAT customer service!! I will definitely buy from her again mostly because her use of color is genius, but also because she is crazy nice and gives wonderful customer service.
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\nLaura at Handwerks and I emailed about her different yarns on a Saturday because I was unsure which one might be coolest (temperature-wise). It is a tad warm here in Texas right now…a tad warm in the way that the Pope is a tad Catholic. She emailed me back right away and was able to give me advice. I selected the Milkweed colorway of So-Soft-Sock. It is lovely and I cannot wait to see it knitted up. She even sent me a little sample of her Super 8 DK sock yarn for me to try and a card with a tiny sample of each of her yarns on it. Fabulous customer service and her yarns are beautiful!
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I ordered some yarn online over the last month or two. First, I ordered Senke from MacKintosh yarn. Then I ordered Milkweed from Handwerks Textiles and finally Teal Mist and Robin Hood from Barking Dog yarn. I had different experiences with each of these shops. Two great and one not so good. Here are the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}