Yarn Tip -

I had visited our local yarn store to get some skeins for the latest project, and had picked several colors from the same company since my project was a multicolor sweater.   I wasn't as worried about matching dye lots since I was doing an entrelac sweater Entrelac: The Essential Guide to Interlace Knitting .     They'd promised me that I could return yarn at any time as long as I had the rececipt.   But imagine my surprise when some time later, I discovered that not all yarn is alike, even when it's the same weight.  I had a combination of superwash and regular worsted yarn.  And the clerk had sold me this combination even though she knew I was using it in the same project.  The problem with using superwash and regular yarn is when you wash them the regular felts, but the superwash does not.  Not too bad if you plan to dry clean your knitting, but when knitting oven mitts, that you felt in the washer, I found that half felted and the other half did not.   

Well, I brought the yarn back to the store with my receipt and she informed me "store credit only" for the yarn still in hanks.  But she wouldn't take the two skeins back that I'd wound them into skeins.   So, annoying since we can't knit the yarn up without winding it into skeins.