Rabbitch

Here, the hell, here!
 

Yeah. I'm not buying yarn but I just forked out over 50 GBP for dye supplies and ordered over 2 kilos of undyed fibre.

And I'm still buying books.

Besides which bloggers are only a small part of the knitiverse.
 

And will someone please link me up to this gal so I can just see all the twattle! Goshallmighty!

Oh. And ... well ... right on. Rant on with your bad self. I love rants.
 

I love you, you are just so fucking eloquent in your posts, seriously, this post is great. I'm with you, patterns ain't cheap. Does she (said shop owner) not have any idea how powerful our word of hand is? I've thought the very same about the migrating of the fibre bucks, they're all still out there, if not in more numbers, just going to different folks.
Ms. K and I had exchanged emails, the subject being your bunniesnatch, ;) and I wrote to her that "Rabbitch has a mouth on her that would drop sailors to their knees begging either for mercy or lessons, and the heart and soul that would drop angels to their knees for the same."
Some people seem to go out of their way to have sandy vaginas, the visual ain't purty either. heh.
 

GAH.
Someone who understands THAT LITTLE about business deserves not to be in it. I'm thinking she could find a rewarding career in the food service or janitorial industry. (BUT OMG, WHAT IF OPRAH GOES ON A DIET AGAIN OR THROWS HER OWN SHIT AWAY?!?!)
Anyway, it's not like Wendy is saying "Don't go to ZZZ shop because we want to put her out of business." Although it would be helpful, so I could make sure to avoid that shop and go somewhere to support REASONABLE people. (I do avoid a LYS here in town - a chain of two, actually - because the owner and all the staff I've met are raging bitches. They don't sell on the net, but if ever you come to Tucson, lemme know so I can steer you away.)
 

TNNA puts out a publication for members with the trends and forecasts.... having just joined I haven't looked at it in serious depth, but from what I recall, the TNNA member retailers' sales are UP! So I think you're right about the buying trending toward quality rather than faceless crappy stores that sell only acrylics with poor selection.
 

"(while secretly thinking that you're a bit of a twat.)" Love it, love it ... no secret now!

BTW, I didn't commit to this yarn diet, but I still knit from my stash whenever I want and my local yarn store isn't worried one bit. Oh ya, I just spent $57 there this week and $127 last week ... no wonder they aren't worried.
 

You know, people who whine like that about what a 'yarn diet' will do to them just make me want to avoid their stores. Besides, it's not like EVERYONE in the blogiverse has signed up for it. I haven't. Can't. No willpower. Especially after my LYS owner let me help with inventory last night so I now know EXACTLY what she has that I want, paid me (totally unnecessary coz I had a blast) with a hugely generous gift certificate, and feeds me booze every week at the SnB. No way I won't be spending my filthy lucre there.

And anyway. My stash is too small for respectability.
 

Re: made up statistics. I've also heard that there are three levels of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
 

Rant on, Rabbitch. People like that drive me apeshit. In fact, the main reason I joined this yarn diet is because I read about the unreasonable yarn store bitch. Logic here: if everyone who's dieting has a big enough stash to do it...well, then, they DID spend an assload of money to acquire it. And if your business is dependent on those same people buying more yarn than they can use and never stopping to use it all up...well, I think there's a supply and demand problem you're not addressing, no?

p.s. I don't SECRETLY think she's a bit of a twat....
 

I totally agree. It scares the everloving shit out of me when Ike and Tina cry for me. I absolutely refuse to buy yarn for a dead guy, no matter how much he cries. Although for Tina...

Nevermind.

I have mentioned, of course, that I love you, non?
 

I like the way said owner whines and whines about not getting anything yarn-related for xmoose and then lists all of the yarns people better not buy her because they're "icky."
 

I don't use the word Twat much (though after reading how well you utilize it I think I should use it a lot more) but I am more than willing to very publicly think she's a TWAT.

Having just spent ALL of my Christmas loot on yarn and a few knitting books, I can safely state that the various (individually owned) yarn sources I frequent are in NO danger of going bottom up as a result of anyone's yarn diet.

Fucking Fabulous post, Rabbitch, Like Lee Ann, I love you too.
 

alright, itgirl knows who 'said owner' is....who the fuck is it? I 'could' promise not to leave a nasty comment if someone will give her name up....heh....
 

What a shit that yarn shop owner is. Sounds like a woman local to me that had a shop blog and was trashing her customers left and right because they had the "nerve" to bring their children into the shop.
 

You know, I had decided to try to knit up some of my stash BEFORE Wendy mentioned it. Does that make me the instigator of the Great Conspiracy to Ruin All LYSs??
Oh, right, NO, because I am not, the last time I checked, Alan-Freakin'-Greenspan or some other such ecconomic luminary.
I reiterate something I say, and thing frequently: IT IS NOT ALL ABOUT YOU. We, the knitters of the world, have no obligation to bankrupt ourselves and fill our houses to overflowing in order to prop up the business of someone who clearly has no confidence in her own business abilities.
OY.
 

Like Marianne, I want to know "who the fuck is it?"!

Rabbitch, you really know how to tell it like it is! You go, girl.
 

Julie? you still waiting? yep, so am I....hee hee
 

I miss everything by going through bloglines and not reading comments. goddamn. I only go to a lys maybe once or twice a year and do most of my shopping online--Am I next for the twat store owner's wrath?
 

I know who the person is too...I looked her up when this thing first started to stink in Wendy's comments.

I looked at her store, and then read her blog. And that's the reason why I wouldn't buy anything from her. Her blog had a tone to it that I absolutely did not care for. Just as I won't shop in a brick and mortar shop where I don't care for the people who work there, neither will I spend money in an online shop for the same reason.

Also, the "sandy vagina" reference made me snort ginger ale out of my nose.
 

I'm trying to figure out what made me chortle the most about this post. I think it was the aside about Alanis Morisette. Every time that fucking song comes on, I start screaming "Isn't it merely unfortunate!!"

Now I'm off to revise my business plan for 2007 to reflect the sharp decrease in yarn sales that is likely to put me out of business. ;)
 

rabbitch rocks!
 

Tara and Marianne:

Wendy seems to have removed the original post.

Look under the comments on Wendy's blog for December 16, 2006. Pay particular attention to the 2nd last search.

Then do a google that includes the name, the state, and the word "blog". You may also need to include the word "yarn" in the search.

I would say she's not trying to hide.
 

Jeezus jumping Christ on a silver pogo-stick. This woman isn't merely a twat. She's fucking psycho. I agree with wen and itgirl on their points, too. She reminds me of a couple people I knew a few years ago - memememe, and constantly snipe at anyone available. Of course, this is merely all in good fun, and if anyone gets upset, well rilly, they're just too sensitive. But say one word against them-- Oooh, everyone's so nasty, and I'm such a nice person!

I suggest a strait-jacket and Thorazine. Lots of Thorazine. Although personally, I think a stungun would be more fun. ::snerk:: And I don't even read Wendy's blog! ;)
 

Yeah, I'd assumed you'd deleted her posts and probably banned her. Can't say as I blame you.

That she made a comment like that IS amusing.

Oh, and I meant "second-last COMMENT", not "second-last search".
 

'Someone' else left her addy on my blog in the comments...I went, I read, and read, did NOT leave a comment...but have to agree that she is a tad unstable to say the least, and just outright fucking whackonut, to the point....do I dare say it...I worry about that toddler she has. yep, I said it, if anyone else goes to hell too, that be me torching away over in the corner, come on over, we'll raise a little more hell. sorry, Rabbitch, this has been a funny can of worms we've all been playing with, eh?
She's just not thought it all through, kind of like george w. down here in the u.s. of a.
Rabbitch, you really do rock, hard.
 

Rock on Sister! What a bee-otch. Like we're going to be able to hold to a yarn diet, anyway. Jeez! That verbal customer was only telling her what people say in their heads every January, and I myself, anyway, haven't organized a military force to make sure people are enforcing the knit-from-the-stash rule. Oh, and by the way? Wasn't it nice of us to buy all that stinkin yarn when we didn't really need it? She can thank us for the extra income when she didn't really have it coming to her.
 

I think the cuntbag is seriously overestimating the willpower of all the knitters participating. Even if a fraction of the knitters that shop at her store participate, how many of them will fail? Not to be my usual negative self but I'm guessing a lot. She'll be fine as long as she takes that size 17 out of her ass.
 

RIGHT ON RABBITCH!
Is that LYS owner insane? Since Wendy came up with the (great) idea to knit from our stashes (to actually make room for more fabulously fibery fun), I believe that I personally have spent the equivalent of at least one house-payment on "Last-minute stash enhancement"...you know, the yarn for projects that you simply must knit in 2007! And any creative yarnivore can come up with so many exceptions, as to make the "KFYS" designation meaningless, unless it applies to the crappy acrylic that this woman's LYS probably sells! That's probably it! :)
 

Speaking of "made up", I'm raising the bullshit flag on that little anecdote. She just *happens* to pitch a bitch at Wendy, then raise a fishysmelling stink on her own blog about how she's going to be crippled and then LO AND BEHOLD in waltzes a customer who's very conveniently illustrating just why this idea is so wrong? The shit of a bull, a horse, several llamas, some ducks and an entire herd of mice, I say. I'm not participating in the stash thingie because I did that all last year due to a serious lack of incoming yarn dollars, but if it *does* put this whackjob on the dole, it's a doubly wonderful idea.
 

Well said Rabbitch!!!!!
 

The Twat just oughta know that we're all not going to last on this "knit from the stash" thing past February anyway, and quit worrying. The only one who might need to worry is my UPS man, who might be out of a job if I quit ordering yarn. Oh yeah, there's the wine orders. Never mind.
"Don't Cry For Me Ike and Tina"? Is that really a song?? ;-)
 

Anyone dying to see the blog entry in question can go to google blog search and search by the title of this entry. It's one of the first few that show up.

I'm not doing the stashalong, officially, but have been organizing my stash so I can use some of the faboo stuff I do have. No commitment, just some good intentions.
 

I love you Rabbitch, will you marry me???
 

Well said!
 

This is a great post, articulate, well argues, funny, pointed....hat you said.

Also I'm really behind, but Happy New Year.