{"id":487,"date":"2006-02-06T21:20:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T11:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=487"},"modified":"2006-02-06T21:20:03","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T11:20:03","slug":"487","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a quick ranty post.
\nRachael<\/a> mentioned the other day that she had seen Red Heart in her local Spotlight<\/a> store (I believe Spotlight is somewhat like the US’s Jo-Ann’s or Hobby Lobby. At the time I remember thinking “What, we don’t have enough crap without importing more?” then, I just sort of forgot about it.
\nThen on Saturday I had to go to Spotlight for fabric and bits and pieces of crap, and thought I’d have a quick look through the yarn, because one of the ladies had mentioned a few weeks ago that they were getting in “some lovely<\/em> new yarns” and it certainly appeared that they had got more stock in.
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\nLots of new ones. Let’s not get carried away with the “lovely”. TLC, Moda Dea and Red Heart. Oh, and something that is proudly labeled “8ply acrylic” and nothing else. (‘Scuse the crappy pictures, I only had my phone with me)
\nEven Panda Yarns<\/a>, Australia’s answer to Red heart has a blurb on their home page which states “The re-entry of plain yarns to the forefront of knitting sees the return of Panda Woolblend crepe”<\/em>.
\nWill someone please alert Spotlight? They now have the entire back wall of the yarn section devoted to floof. And it’s not even nice floof! And now, the plain yarns they stock are Red Heart, Panda Magnum, TLC and 8ply acrylic. The better quality yarns (such as they are) are stuffed into one small section.
\nIf I’d been braver, I would have taken a picture of the ladies waiting at the checkout. One had 4 balls of Red Heart, one had 8 ply acrylic and one had floof. At the time, I had my possum lace with me, to match beads and I felt like running over and saying “Ladies! Feel this! Now feel that!” Thank heavens for Stitch n Bitch and the internet, or I’d be led to believe that I’m the only one who knits with wool.
\nDon’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that there’s no place for acrylic, there is, and I have used it myself on occasion. If you want to knit floofy scarves, go ahead, you don’t need my permission, or even my blessing, do what you<\/em> like.
\nBut it sure would be nice if they stocked some nicer yarns too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a quick ranty post. Rachael mentioned the other day that she had seen Red Heart in her local Spotlight store (I believe Spotlight is somewhat like the US’s Jo-Ann’s or Hobby Lobby. At the time I remember thinking “What, we don’t have enough crap without importing more?” then, I just sort of forgot about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}