And as I’m broke right now, awating the start of my first teaching job next week, I’m one who is very happy that all the good stuff was gone before I knew it was there. It saved me the greif of seeing it and knowing I can’t buy it! Silly I know, but I have to keep my sanity by rationalizing things.

I think this belongs here:

Bronwyn has left a new comment on your post “Everyone wants to be up on Ravelry”:

Hi Melissa, I came through the loopy ewe. I just wanted to clarify that it’s not one person buying all of one colorway… think of it this way: A shop gets 10 colors, 10 skeins of each. If 10 people each buy 1 of each colorway, that is all 100 skeins, gone. And Sheri has WAY more than 10 customers, and I know some of them buy many colorways of new yarns at one time (Dream in Color, for example.) This is what I would like to see limited in the future, not because I am just such a whiny baby (I really don’t even care about the yarn! I have plenty!) but because Sheri has so, so many customers who only want 1 or 2, but because a few people buy many or wants, you have far more unhappy than happy people.
I hope it makes more sense now, whether you agree or not.

I´m overwhelmed about these sneak up, your comments and your lovely welcome for my yarn, thank you so much! I hope you are not disappointed from my yarn, I´m only a little German hand dyer and you have such great stuff in the US. Sheri and I can´t know what will happen (right Sheri?), please be indulgent. You know she try always her best .

Exotic greetings (means my exotic terrible grammar )

Claudia

I forgot to take Loopy on vacation last week, but she said that was ok; she enjoyed a little peace and quiet.

Thanks for all you do Sheri! The Loopy Ewe is the best!!

But how about this one for the most adorable little needlebooks and pincushions http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=84312

Then there’s this one for really cute gift tags http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=59960

Oh, and this one–she just has the cutest cottagey stuff–and you never know what she’ll have next http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=17763

Ok–I better stop! You can go to my Etsy shop and click on my “FAVORITES” and see a bunch of great stuff if you want.

And Tigger’s Mom, if you read the above posts carefully, you’ll see that no one is falling down and having fits. We all KNOW that it is just yarn. I don’t think it’s ridiculous to suggest some ways to make the shopping experience at TLE smoother for more customers, and no one would even think of criticizing Sheri. We all love her and appreciate what she does!

I thinking limiting the skein number of a “new” yarn is ridiculous. First, the coding for Web Guy would be unthinkable, and second, limiting the number isn’t going to help if you aren’t on your computer as the 25th or 50th or whatever person. There are many, many people shopping at TLE, and a set number of skeins of every yarn, for every sneak up! Thirdly, the nature of commerce, capitalism and competitive shopping means that not everyone gets what they want. There will be other chances, you can be sure. If Sheri can make it happern, she will.

I think Sheri is to be commended for getting up in the wee hours of the morning to do this sneak up. By staggering the sneak up times, everyone gets a chance eventually.

Sheri and her family are providing us with the best in sock & lace yarrn, needles, patterns and goodies, and the best in customer service. They support indie dyers and allow us to see, and sometimes buy, unique yarns. Yippee for that, and kudos to all of the family. Keep up the most excellent work!

To secure a skein, I had to get up when the boy got up to take the dog out, and of course wait for him to leave the apartment before I was able to get the loopy ewe up on the computer, because if he had seen my yarn feeding frenzy (knowing how monumental the stash is already) it would have been embarassing. And still I had a cart jumper, and half of the colorways were already sold out.

As far as the one or two skein limit… maybe I am wrong, but I don’t think anyone is stockpiling any particular yarn in a single colorway. Maybe collecting them all by a particular dyer (Dream in Color is so incredible it is on its way to becming a scarf from Victorian Lace Today. I could collect all of the colorways like people collected beanie babies in 1996)… Anyway, I think it’s just a lot of us trying to get our knitterly mitts on the yarn, and not so much a few people getting their mitts on a lot of yarn.

Maybe next time when a sneak up is imminent, I will just load up on coffee and hit refresh all night…

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=4894

(Hope this gets through. Tried twice yesterday and posting seemed to work but didn’t. Safari is being a brat. Trying with Camino.)