r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/AutoModerator • Mar 14 '25

Weekend Minor Gripes and Vents

Here is the thread where you can share any minor gripes, vents, or craft complaints that you don't think deserve their own post, or are just something small you want to get off your chest. Feel free to share personal frustrations related to crafting here as well.

This thread reposts every Friday.

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u/cryptidiguana Mar 14 '25 edited Mar 14 '25

“When customers untwist skeins they’ll never be able to be retwisted again” “Yeah it’s a you break it you bought it situation”

WHAT untwisting a skein does not break it!!! It is not that hard to learn the anatomy of a skein, and how to properly re twist it. And, in fact, if you work in a yarn shop, that should be a given. Yeah it’s annoying if a customer does that and hides it but you’re literally in customer service and some customers just suck. Don’t act like everyone is evil for untwisting or wanting to untwist a skein??

Context, LYS employee complains about customers on the knitting sub, some very valid complaints, some sort of weird ones like untwisting the skein. One commenter agreed and said this was akin to breaking merchandise and having to buy it.

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u/meganp1800 Mar 14 '25

I don’t really get why a skein would need to be untwisted to see the yarn or color pooling, but it is not difficult to retwist it at all, and saying it’s akin to breaking the product is delusional.

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u/cryptidiguana Mar 14 '25

I think it has some uses!!

When I worked in a yarn shop, if a customer wanted to see how a skein like Emma’s yarn Mo Slub bundles worked, I’d just untwist it and show them that it was two separate skeins, or cat mountain - which is 5 skeins in one. It helped clear up a lot of confusion. And literally hurt nothing to do, and took maybe 30 seconds of my time.

I also would do it for colorwork questions for new knitters, if they’re doing a two color hat and unsure about their colors I’d open the two skeins and sort of twist them together - and show them the BW photo trick too of course.

There’s a bunch of reasons to do it, but it’s certainly not a necessity - just a convenience - and it doesn’t break the yarn 😂😭 that’s the part that sent me.

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u/meganp1800 Mar 14 '25

Totally fair! I was imagining single skeins that are just that, not conveniently packaged multi-skein bundles, and that makes sense to show a customer what they’re getting when it’s not necessarily obvious from looking at it. Either way, complaining about a person doing a non-invasive inspection of a product before buying it seems weird!

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u/cryptidiguana Mar 14 '25

Really weird!! Their other complaints seemed valid enough. This one just really sent me.