That is, for me anyway I went to Lambkins Hideaway today to show off my Olympic shawl. I mentioned it before, but they got really into the whole Knitting Olympics thing. They gave discounts, had their own team, a party, etc. You had to bring in your project by today so they could take a picture and award medals. They were all so sweet to say how wonderful/beautiful/delightful it is despite my many mistakes. I also got a good tip…use bamboo needles for a project like this so the stitches don’t slide around as much. They help prevent two stitches sticking together. So all of that praise made me feel good. Oh…and I got to fondle yarn…always good feeling.
What was really cute though is that Mindy (:wave: Hi Mindy? Are you out there somewhere? Do you have a blog? Would love to chat!) came in and she said something to the effect of “oh, you’re the diva girl!” How fun is that for someone to recognize you from your blog? Of course, I was in a yarn store so I was totally “in context” which probably helped.

Then, the owner (Christina, I think. We’ve never formally met, but she has been in the shop both times I was there. Also, she looks official, lol) of the shop told me they had been watching my progress on my blog and they about died when all my stitches came off the needles! I thought that was pretty cool. Plus, they had forgotten to give me the discount on my Olympics purchase, then tried to contact me through the blog but my contact form was down! Must’ve happened when I migrated to Wordpress 2.0. Anyway, she mentioned the contact form today which enabled me to fix it AND adjusted for the discount. How is all of that for customer service???!!! Quite refreshing in the downward spiral that is retail.
I returned my last skein of Gossamer (for the shawl) since I won’t be needing it again (at least for a WHILE and besides, I would want a different color). Of course, I couldn’t leave empty handed. Instead of RETURNING my skein like a good little knitter, I EXCHANGED it for more sock yarn instead. :badgirl: Sock yarn is the one thing I can always count on using eventually (It’s nice to know what you’re going to do with a particular yarn instead of waiting for the yarn to tell you what it wants to be. Sock yarn…socks…duh…nice and brainless when you need it), so I don’t feel at all too guilty about my new sock yarn. Plus, it just reminds me of summer…watermelon specifically. And summer and watermelons can’t possibly be a bad thing, right?