Seriously! yarn should not snap this much! (RANT ALERT)

#1

I will not cry, i will not shout (much). i will be calm and philosophical. i will i swear.

I may have mentioned it once or twice in other posts but this yarn is DRIVING ME CRAZY! it is so fragile.
It has just snapped whilst im knitting for [I]the 5th time[/I] this sock, and im only on the gusset :wall: (btw, is it just me and my fun wh find that word horid?).
That’s why i gave up on doing a cabled sock and just went for a simple ribbed sock, so that at least it is fairly easy to reatatch the yarn, but it is so frustrating. :hair:

i am never using this yarn again!! except that i have 2 more balls of it in grey and 3 in a lovely dark teal and i hate to see things go to waste. but i won’t. it has been sent by the knitting devil to test me and the knitting devil is winning :twisted:

ok rant over.

thank you and sorry guys.

#2

Do you knit tight? Is the yarn very dry, maybe older yarn? I’ve even bought yarn from an LYS that was old and dry and broke often. Very frustrating. A test you can do is to take a 6" piece and wrap each end around your index fingers and give it a tug. If it breaks easily then it may be the yarn. If you can really pull on it then it isn’t too dry.

#3

:grphug:

Maybe with the rest of it, knit something on large needles and strand it with something else (stronger).

#4

I’m very curious.

:hug:

#5

i read the topic and thought u were talking about homespun :slight_smile:

#6

I don’t think you could break lion homespun, either accidentally or on purpose.

#7

Ugh, Harrisville Flax and Wool snaps WAY too easily as well (I’m not sure what yarn you are using)…But I bought some of this for a scarf this year. 6 inches into it – SNAP! Being a new knitter, I didn’t know what softspun meant. Now I do. :stuck_out_tongue:

#8

oh it’s possible Suzee… i had my project sitting on the backseat of my van… kids got in… we got home, i got my project and only had the skein sitting there, the shawl went missing. the yarn was broken (lionbrand homespun… i hate working with it i’ve found) and i found the shawl on the floor under the third seat (the last row in the van… it had been sitting on the seat in the second row).