There I was, alone and yarnless on my fiber-deserted island, clinging to the internet for love, when I started to hear rumors on other fiber blogs about this beautiful stuff called
Blue Moon Sock Yarn. People were writing confessions about sniffing it, fondling it, knitting beautiful things out of it just for the sensual pleasure, going mad in the shops and taking piles of it home and rolling around in it...
What was this addicting stuff? I wondered. I found the
sock club by surfing their site and signed up immediately: I had to get in on it, no matter what "it" turned out to be. Yarn sniffing-fondling-knitting-rolling in it? I was in! Then came the
silly banking issue, the blog with it's many vocal members, and finally,
the first shipment!
I did not knit it.
I did not start April.
However,
I did start February! Yes, it was June (maybe even late May?) and I was knitting the Monsoon socks. In the meantime, I read the blogs and was envious when knitters all went to Sock Camp. I read about all the technical problems (there was more than just the bank: Apparently there were shipping problems, blog problems, email problems, etc.) and I read the very polite notes from Tina and the crew about how everyone should try to be a bit nicer on the sock club blog, and how they were fixing problems as fast as they could. I didn't think too much about these silly complaints. Maybe because I know that there will always be someone complaining about something on the internet. Maybe because in Hawaii we have so many shipping and supply issues that I have ceased to expect perfection and haste. I thought the yarn and pattern-related complaints were just crazy because- well- have you rolled in the stuff?!?! So I shrugged it all off.
Tina was at the Blue Moon booth at the Black Sheep Gathering. I was telling her that I loved the sock club when she went ahead and introduced herself. Then she asked who I was and where I was from, and seemed to even remember me! (There must not be too many of us in Hawaii?) She then hesitantly asked if I have had any problems, and if I had received the June shipment yet. (When I left for Oregon I hadn't, but when I got back it was here waiting for me.) I reported no problems and I think I get the shipments around the same time as California club members.
I then handed her my credit card and brought home my own stash.
But I have been thinking about it ever since. See, I was a bit star-struck and tongue-tied at the time. I wish I had been more clear with my praise. I really love the club: I look forward to each shipment, love the yarn and patterns, appreciate the beautiful dyeing, and love that there is a whole community of people out there that are as delighted and surprised by it all as I am! I fear the crew at Blue Moon (like many of us) perhaps get fixated on the very few negative squeaky wheels out there, when there is a mountain of people out there gushing (like this) ridiculously about rolling in and snorting the yarn.
This is just another love letter to Blue Moon. One of many, I hope. Check out the June Shipment! (Er...Which I haven't yet begun to knit...)
1 comment:
Nice haul! I'm so tempted to get Lunasea in every yarn they have. Nice to see your Silkie version.
I only hear nice things about Tina & the BMFA ladies, so I'm glad you got to meet her.
And if it makes you feel any better, I still haven't cast on my Solstice Slips yet. (Thinking cuff down w/a k3-p2 cuff and regular ole gusset heel like a lot of club members.)
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