Outrageous sock yarn failure!
My daughter knit these socks from "Knitpicks Essential" yarn (now renamed "Stroll Sock Yarn"). She has only worn them a few times. Each time she has worn them they have formed huge pilling masses like this within a few hours. By the end of the day she can pull an entire wad of loose fibre from the bottom of her sock.
What a heartbreaking failure! They were nice socks.
5 comments:
oh how weird!!
many of my socks are knit with essential, and I've never had that problem, I wonder what gauge did your daughter knit them at? I find that while super soft and cheap, essential needs to be knit a bit tighter than most people knit their socks. :(
either way, those are some awesome socks.
I would definitely send a copy of that photo to KnitPicks. At the very least, they should offer her some kind of compensation - different yarn, a gift certificate, something! All that work and the materials were so poor quality. Definitely makes me think twice about purchasing yarn from them.
That's awful, so much work, arrrggghhhh!!!! I would definately send the pic to them and see what they say, seems excessive.
Yet more proof that merino really doesn't make great socks unless you knit it at a bulletproof gauge (~10 sts per inch).
It really sucks tho, as those are great socks!
Oh no!
How disappointing - never a good start to the day when you need to shave your socks ;-)
I agree though - they were very nice socks!
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