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Update on Dharma Trading
Jun. 12th, 2013 02:54 pmAs promised, my order shipped on Monday. I chose UPS SmartPost, which is the slowest shipping method, but because I'm in Southern Nevada and they're in Petaluma, CA, my estimated delivery was still Thursday.
Checked my delivery estimate this morning, and it had been revised to today because UPS was going to deliver rather than handing the box off to the post office (benefit of having it delivered to work, I suspect). And indeed, UPS had delivered before I even got to work.
Everything was neatly bagged up in plastic, by type: the jars of dye (holy crap I'd forgotten that 2oz of dry dye powder is a lot) were in one plastic bag, the mixing bottles were in another, the yarn was individually bagged and then bagged up together. Barring the intervention of a trickster god, I don't see any way for dye to get where it's not wanted in an intact package. Everything was nestled down in packing peanuts that, my shipping email informs me, will dissolve in water.
The yarn I got was the Queen Anne's Lace (#28) and Bamboo Cotton Fingering (#57). The one thing I don't like is there's no identifiers except the yarn number written on the bags; for fiber information, you have to check the website. However, both yarns appear to be in nice, securely wrapped hanks, ready for dying (unless you are me, and intend to re-wind everything for various and sundry experiments). Both yarns look just like they do in the photos, with no obvious flaws or trash in them, and the fingering appears to be a nice, even, fairly tight spin that I can only hope will knit up as nicely as expected. The Queen Anne's Lace is much looser *points at the thick-thin texture in the photo* and I may hate it, but I've been looking for something with a bit of texture, so we shall see. I am kind of wondering/hoping the fingering will be sturdy enough for some light lace socks for summer.
So far, Dharma Trading is getting 5 stars from me; I will update if I find anything horribly horribly wrong when I start winding the yarn into balls.
Checked my delivery estimate this morning, and it had been revised to today because UPS was going to deliver rather than handing the box off to the post office (benefit of having it delivered to work, I suspect). And indeed, UPS had delivered before I even got to work.
Everything was neatly bagged up in plastic, by type: the jars of dye (holy crap I'd forgotten that 2oz of dry dye powder is a lot) were in one plastic bag, the mixing bottles were in another, the yarn was individually bagged and then bagged up together. Barring the intervention of a trickster god, I don't see any way for dye to get where it's not wanted in an intact package. Everything was nestled down in packing peanuts that, my shipping email informs me, will dissolve in water.
The yarn I got was the Queen Anne's Lace (#28) and Bamboo Cotton Fingering (#57). The one thing I don't like is there's no identifiers except the yarn number written on the bags; for fiber information, you have to check the website. However, both yarns appear to be in nice, securely wrapped hanks, ready for dying (unless you are me, and intend to re-wind everything for various and sundry experiments). Both yarns look just like they do in the photos, with no obvious flaws or trash in them, and the fingering appears to be a nice, even, fairly tight spin that I can only hope will knit up as nicely as expected. The Queen Anne's Lace is much looser *points at the thick-thin texture in the photo* and I may hate it, but I've been looking for something with a bit of texture, so we shall see. I am kind of wondering/hoping the fingering will be sturdy enough for some light lace socks for summer.
So far, Dharma Trading is getting 5 stars from me; I will update if I find anything horribly horribly wrong when I start winding the yarn into balls.
