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[2eclipse]

so i went to borealis yarn store for the first time today.
and they had SUCH wonderful sock yarn...although they also had an awful lot of plymouth yarn, which does 100% keystone pricing, so i can't buy from them (votin' with my dollars!). still it was lovely. and i had coffee with a nice lady from ravelry who lives near me. and i got 2 skeins of yarn.

this loveliness is queensland collection kathmandu. it is super smooshy. and will be a small cthulhu.

and this...well. it speaks for itself.


this is cat's pajamas in honeypot. it involves cashmere. it is LOVE

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Comments

[silvertongue1.livejournal.com]

PRETTY yarn! I (politely) demand pictures of high lord cthulhu when he is done.
~A

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

o ryleh?
of course.
pictures will come if madness does not prevent it. :)

[clare-dragonfly.livejournal.com]

What does "100% keystone pricing" mean? I like Plymouth...

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

i like plymouth yarns too. i don't like their company policies.
keystone pricing means that essentially, they participate in legal price fixing, forcing any yarn store they deal with to hike up the price by at least 80%. see more here (http://www.consumerfriendlyyarns.blogspot.com/).
i won't buy from companies that do this. i printed out the list and keep it in my bag in case i wind up at a yarn store....the list doesn't have all yarn companies, and not all companies on the list fix prices, but i want to make sure i don't support the ones that do.

[clare-dragonfly.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's kind of ridiculous.

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

the crummy thing is that the only reason it's legal is because it is the factory company deciding what prices their distributors can use - instead of selling the product that way directly. so the yarn stores are the ones that get the extra profit, not them...but it still over-inflates the prices of luxury yarns for consumers. i try to buy from known "friendly" companies or from indy dyers online. i will buy from companies if i don't know their policies..but if i know they are keystone they won't get any of my business.

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

lime and violet and cast on have both produced podcasts about this that are worth listening to, btw.