Boo!
Did I scare you? I know it's been a month since I last posted, but, I've been really really busy, and by the time I get a free moment all I want to do is relax. In the past four weeks, the last two kittens went to their new homes, Ella (Kitty Momma) is starting to integrate into our household. There is still a lot of hissing and fighting, but even this is abating.
August brings inventory time at Log Cabin, and both Mr Knits and myself are occupied with counting every little thing in our shops. Every year I am amazed and astounded how many skeins of yarn are in the shop. Which is why I was flabbergasted at a customer's comment today. The dear lady purchased some yarn two years ago to make a sweater for her grand daughter, and she ran out. When I told her I had no more of the yarn, and it had been discontinued for more than a year, she informed me that I was not a very good yarn shop owner. Usually I let comments like that slide, but I was so shocked I asked her why. Apparently she thinks it is common practice for yarn shop owners to keep a skein from every bag of yarn ever stocked in the shop "just in case" a customer needs it.
Sounds like a nice thing to do, doesn't it? Except, with more than 1,000 different yarn dyelots in the shop, where the heck would I put it all? (It's kinda scary that I have that many different yarns! No wonder it takes so long to count!) I could open the Log Cabin Yarn Museum and put all this "just in case" yarn on display.
All whining aside, stay tuned for a post inventory sale announcement early next week - there will be yarn (really good yarn) on sale for as little as a dollar a ball.
August brings inventory time at Log Cabin, and both Mr Knits and myself are occupied with counting every little thing in our shops. Every year I am amazed and astounded how many skeins of yarn are in the shop. Which is why I was flabbergasted at a customer's comment today. The dear lady purchased some yarn two years ago to make a sweater for her grand daughter, and she ran out. When I told her I had no more of the yarn, and it had been discontinued for more than a year, she informed me that I was not a very good yarn shop owner. Usually I let comments like that slide, but I was so shocked I asked her why. Apparently she thinks it is common practice for yarn shop owners to keep a skein from every bag of yarn ever stocked in the shop "just in case" a customer needs it.
Sounds like a nice thing to do, doesn't it? Except, with more than 1,000 different yarn dyelots in the shop, where the heck would I put it all? (It's kinda scary that I have that many different yarns! No wonder it takes so long to count!) I could open the Log Cabin Yarn Museum and put all this "just in case" yarn on display.
All whining aside, stay tuned for a post inventory sale announcement early next week - there will be yarn (really good yarn) on sale for as little as a dollar a ball.
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