So sad...

Oh, but I am disappointed! Not with any of the wonderful colour choices or patterns, but with the yarn mishap that I have just had.

I just got around to pulling out the swift and ball winder to wind up June and July's skeins. July's (lovely) went just fine, but I had nothing but problems with the Bird of Paradise skein. As we were told ahead of time, this yarn was not re-skeined by the dyer, but sent in the original tie-up. I noticed that it was a really short skein, and when I unwrapped the ties I saw that there were quite a few longer loops that had been tied up with the rest. It looked unusual, but there was nothing that I could do to manipulate them to change it, so I had to try to put it on the swift and try. I wound slowly and carefully, but it ended up snarling and there was nothing to do but cut it. I now have a small 35 gram usable ball of this beautiful yarn, and 76 grams that are going into the trash because they are really and truly hopelessly tangled. I can't help but think that had this been re-skeined by the dyer that the difficulties would have been discovered then and I might have gotten a usable skein. I really hope that we get them done up properly in the future.

I don't like complaining (born and raised in Canada, eh), but this sock club is a little luxury that I cannot afford if I am not getting good product. Wah.....

Cynthia