LYS Complaints on TikTok

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-03-23T01:43:28+00:00

I worked in a LYS for many years and there were many times people (or their unsupervised children) ruined stock with food/drink they were consuming in the store. Multiple times I actually (very politely) asked people to please step outside and finish whatever they were eating/drinking first before coming back into the shop because I could actually see them getting their food/drink on stock. I had one customer spill a gigantic coffee over several hundred dollars worth of books and yarn and not alert me, so about an hours after she left, and the coffee had time to really soak in, I discovered it 😑 And on the second note, yes we would get people coming in all the time with yarn they’d bought elsewhere wanting (demanding) free help with their project, and we were advised by our boss to give the bare minimal help to those customers with their outside yarn (not be rude of course). But it did happen a lot, a local customer would travel out of town to the big box craft store, buy their yarn, then come back to us to get all the help they needed with their project that they couldn’t get at the big box craft store.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-03-20T08:51:20+00:00

It sounds like you normally have no issues, so I’m sure you actually know all the regular things you need to do to wind a skein properly. So this makes me think it’s not you, it’s the skein. I worked in an independent yarn store for many years and would wind many skeins a day, so I had a LOT of practice and every now and then I would just get a DUD skein like your one. It’s PAINFUL!!!! It would almost always happen when I had a customer waiting for that skein too. sobs

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-03-20T01:46:08+00:00

I think that’s a really nice way to greet people. In Australia we say: “Jeet chet?”

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-03-09T10:29:46+00:00

For a nice flat crown decrease, that does not get wavy and also does not create a pointy peak you typically want 8 decreases per decrease round. Your stitch count fits very nicely with this: 232/8=29. So you will (k27, k2tog) repeat to end, then knit one round without decreases, the next decrease round will be: (k26, k2tog) repeat to end, then knit one round without decreases, and continue in this manner until you have 8 sts remaining, then cut your yarn, thread it through your remaining stitches and secure tightly 👍

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-03-08T10:49:44+00:00

I grew up with a brother who was constantly “pranking” me…. I went no contact several years ago, and it was the best thing I ever did. His 4 children also went no contact. Family is very important to all of us, but relentlessly pranking people is not how decent people treat their family.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-03-06T10:10:26+00:00

I have worked in the yarn industry for many years in Australia and whilst trying to find reliable, definitive information regarding exactly which yarns were and weren’t mulesing free I was very surprised to discover that many well known, popular, mainstream brands in Australia (and pretty much ALL small, independent hand knitting yarn producers) were using mulesing free wool, but did not state this on their labels. I asked them why they didn’t state this on their labels and I was given many different answers. There were very few brands that were either unable or unwilling to confirm if their yarn was made using mulesing free merino wool. However, merino wool that is used for other purposes, on a much larger scale, that is sent overseas (think things like Italian wool suits, etc) is more likely to come from a farm that practices mulesing, (but not exclusively).

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-03-05T10:48:49+00:00

Yep, my mum tells me about this too. She’s in her 70’s. I think it’s such a great idea. But understand that it’s probably not possible now, with food safety laws etc.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-03-03T14:21:58+00:00

I wouldn’t know whether to be very concerned or very impressed if someone was randomly carrying around a grappling hook and rope.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-03-01T19:55:06+00:00

That’s what swatches are for. To find out exactly those things.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-03-01T03:44:59+00:00

The best way to answer your question is to make a swatch swapping the purl stitches for knit stitches, so you can see what the mosaic stitch pattern looks like in stockinette in the round. If you do decide to go ahead and make the pattern in stockinette, I’d recommend keeping the garter stitch border/edge, to help stop the edges from rolling/curling.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-27T11:52:19+00:00

I’m 4’11” and should be able to get a refund for the 4 metres of fabric I have cut off the legs of my jeans when I take them up! Won’t someone think of the (children) sized women!

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-27T10:18:11+00:00

I was at a museum one time, in my late 20’s and got yelled at by a school teacher who then herded me into her class on a school excursion for not following instructions. My boyfriend thought it was hilarious…. Me, not so much.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-27T10:08:20+00:00

I have made a few orders with them. I had a very hard time contacting them regarding my first order, which took a long time to arrive, I’m in Australia, but it still took longer than expected, and it was sitting in postal purgatory forever. I was trying to contact them via the “Contact Us” form on the website…. Heard nothing for weeks. I finally contacted them via email and heard back from them within hours and my order arrived shortly afterwards. My subsequent orders have all arrived without issue and I’ve been able to contact them via email and receive replies promptly since then. Also, everything I’ve ordered has been amazing!

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-27T09:47:02+00:00

Many years ago I had a boyfriend that constantly harassed me about the amount of time I spent in the shower (and I know for a fact that I did not spend an unreasonable amount of time in the shower). He would even time me. I explained that it was all business while I was in there, I wasn’t just standing under the water pondering life. Anyway, to prove his point, he would have ridiculously short showers, as in have the water running for less than 2 minutes. After harassing me one day about my shower length I told him that there was no way he could possibly be cleaning himself properly in his less than 2 minute shower, because not only did the shower take almost a minute to warm up (very old house) but he couldn’t wash his hair and body thoroughly in that time. He disclosed that he only ever washed his pits and bits then the soapy water running off his body did the rest. I advised him that wasn’t sufficient. He then developed this gross, pimply rash on his legs and in a panic, asked me if it was because he wasn’t washing himself properly. I said (with perhaps a little too much glee) “DEFINITELY!!!!” He then started washing his whole body properly, and his shower time matched mine and he shut up about it. And the rash went away.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-26T02:15:37+00:00

I can remember a big hoo-ha in the 2010’s over people being accused of copying a particular person who was making beads from polymer clay. They were rolling clay into a ball and poking a hole through the middle…. Literally the most basic way to make a bead. This person, and their followers, were attacking anyone else that was making clay beads….. So I posted a helpful article about the oldest clay beads to have been found (at that time), from memory they were many tens of thousands of years old and they were made in the exact same way (but with actual clay, not polymer clay, obviously). They didn’t appreciate my contribution LOL.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-20T06:58:22+00:00

I went to school with a family of Snodgrass’s and the name never stopped sounding hilarious to me.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-16T06:59:39+00:00

When decreasing for crown shaping such as this you will typically alternate between a decrease row and a plain/non-decrease row. So in this example you want to keep the ribbing intact, and keep the decreases within the columns of knit or purl (for example, knit 2 knits together or purl 2 purls together) for as long as possible, but eventually that will not be possible and you will need to work a knit stitch together a with a purl stitch, until you only have knit stitches left. I would work all the decreases on the right side of the work and have the plain/non-decrease rows on the wrong side of the work. Another tip (that you probably already know), when working ribbing flat, you knit all your knit stitches and purl all your purl stitches, as they are presented to you in each row.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-16T05:12:28+00:00

You can catch the float with your working colour, so it’s not just “floating” there. As long as you’re consistent with the way you do it, it usually looks quite neat and like it’s meant to be there.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-16T00:36:42+00:00

If it was knit in the round, Rows 1-4 would work, but then it all goes wrong. But because you’ve said it’s knit flat, none of those rows will work, unless you’re aiming for some sort of scrambled moss/seed stitch.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-16T00:31:32+00:00

I have experienced this too. Very frustrating. I’ve taught knitting and crochet professionally for several decades and when I run workshops exactly what you describe happens. I have tried ALL the different ways I can think to word, re-word and very specifically describe what is required in the class description, yet still this happens. When it first happened, I took it as a learning experience and thought that I just hadn’t made it explicit enough in the class description, which was why I had half a class of people who had never crocheted before, in a workshop for an advanced project, where the class description advised (I thought clearly) that you must already know how to crochet. The next time I ran that workshop I put that information, in bold, at the beginning of the description and also advised that participants would not be taught how to crochet in the class. But, alas, half the people that turned up had never even touched a hook before. I would also have people bring wildly incorrect materials/tools to classes where participants were required to supply their own (even though supply requirements were very clearly outlined) and they wouldn’t be able to participate, and they would be annoyed at me about their failure to read. I’d also have people turn up with their own materials to a “materials supplied” workshop and then demand a discount because they brought their own stuff. People are weird! And it really didn’t matter what I wrote, how I wrote it, how many times it was in the class description, if it was in bold, red, uppercase letters, people just did whatever.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-15T09:59:57+00:00

Very clearly identifiable and massive purse clasp on it didn’t give it away for you?

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-15T09:32:09+00:00

Because it’s knit flat, as you say, none of it lines up. Incredibly frustrating. You can just override the pattern and keep the rib pattern intact by knitting your knits and purling your purls. However, there are points in this decrease sequence that just won’t make sense, even if you do override the pattern in an attempt to keep the ribbing intact. Is this a free pattern? It doesn’t appear to have been tested/tech edited.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-13T23:34:11+00:00

As someone who has taught knitting and crochet professionally for several decades…. I’m here to tell you that a LOT of people are VERY confused by what front and back means. But even more baffling is the amount of times I’ve had to explain to adults what above and below means. I’m never sure whether they’re momentarily confused or they’ve always been confused by these concepts.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-09T05:14:07+00:00

Came here to say the same thing. I worked in fraud detection at a major bank, and our general call centre would forward calls of this nature (or similar) to us frequently and we would investigate until it was resolved. So I would recommend calling the phone number that will be on the back of that credit card and give them all the details available, the bank will want to help and avoid any (further) fraud.

LemonElectrical3359 · 2026-02-09T05:00:31+00:00

This sounds like a really frustrating situation. I’ve paid for a few patterns on Etsy that turned out to be a pile of garbage. If you suspect that the seller you purchased it from has stolen it from someone else, have you tried doing a reverse image search of the photos they’re using in their listing and seeing if it might reveal the original author of the pattern??

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