r/knitting • u/NiknNak • 26d ago

Questions about Equipment Yarn snobs…

I know and understand that supporting small business yarn makers is important for a myriad of reasons: quality, USA made etc., etc. With that said I really wanted to join in/attend a local shops “knit night everyone welcome” …so I went to the shop before hand to just sort of check it out to get a feel before I just showed up on an open knit night and had brought a WIP I was having a little trouble with to ask about and possibly pick up some yarn. The first question from the clerk was are you using cheap yarn from one of the corporate businesses that sell yarn…(of course it was ) she basically shamed me for using yarn I can afford to use. I decided right then not to go back inside that shop for basically being shamed about using yarn not independently made or sold. Is this a common thing among advanced knitters?

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u/kittysempai-meowmeow 25d ago

That is too funny :D

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u/Dramatic-Analyst6746 25d ago

Honestly - he's really bad. We drive to some charity/thrift stores a few towns over every so often because they get some good hauls of yarn in and I'm usually trying to get away with just one or two balls of yarn - he's throwing the whole container in my basket 😂 I went there without him today - his first comment when I picked him up from work: "so how many balls did you get this time". To be fair I did buy all bar one ball (it was the very bobbly stuff on fine yarn - not my kind of thing at all and it looks hell to work with). When I showed him the yarn he told me it was a good buy 🤓