That’s, um, specific.
However, some poking around yielded this:
http://jpknitandstitch.com/
On their site I found this.
So, apparently, such a place does exist.
FTR, for all I know their yarn sucks and they hate gays, I really didn’t research the place beyond trying to find a place the sells yarn and at least appears to support marriage equality.
Then we agree. I must have misunderstood your comment that you thought boycotting brands and businesses based on politics is an exercise in futility.
Hobby Lobby’s brand just isn’t that great. It’s not bad, it’s your middle of the road sort of yarn that’s nothing special. So going so far out of your way to justify buying it, when you have an entire internet full of non-gay-hating options, is a mystery to me.
I suggest you check out Knitpicks.com, littleknits.com, discontinuedbrandnameyarn.com, elann.com, as just a few of the places where you can buy inexpensive yarns.
I can’t imagine - or at least I’ve yet to encounter - a business whose philosophy or political leanings appall me to the point that I would deprive myself of something that I would typically happily purchase/use/enjoy/benefit from.
For example, I am strongly pro-gun control. Should Dairy Queen announce tomorrow that they support the NRA, I’d be a bit disappointed. But deprive myself of Oreo Blizzards to make a stand? Not me.
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I’d say buy the yarn, and figure that your $2 was paid to an employee who might share your political opinion but be working there because there’s nothing else. A friend of mine is an X-ray tech at a local (Catholic) hospital. Because her insurance is through her employer, and Catholics don’t believe in birth control, she has to pay out-of-pocket for the pill. But she needs the job, ya know?
McDonald’s version of the “Southern Chicken Sandwich” isn’t quite as good as an original Chic-fil-A, but it’s good enough, and I don’t have to feel quite so dirty by patronizing Chic-fil-A.
Because most times it is, IMHO.
I don’t associate with people who get on my nerves. But I do this because I don’t like having my nerves worked. Not because I think this alone will change people. Ignoring people (especially only when convenient to me) and expecting them to change in response IS an exercise in futility. But if my goal is simply to remove them from my presence so I can be happy, then goal accomplished.
Some people have different priorities than you do in life. I hope this helps you understand the topic of discussion in this thread.
I’m aware of all of those, but thank you.
For people - I’d say most people who avidly crochet at least, since it is fast and takes up a lot of yarn - whose main yarn diet is RHSS for acrylic, Lily Sugar ‘n’ Cream for cotton, Lionbrand for wool, etc, it is a very great option indeed. I’m certainly not saying it’s high end, but it’s very good for the price.
I’ve also never personally encountered a better cotton yarn, but your results may vary.
Again, probably more advertizing for them. :o
Anyway, point taken, monstro. What I’m doing is likely just an effort to justify this to myself and doesn’t make sense to anyone else. That is essentially what I wanted to know from opening this thread.
Yeah, if you’re going to boycott, then boycott. “I don’t usually shop there but when I realllllly want something, then I go ahead” isn’t a boycott, it’s just… I don’t know what it is.
I like Chik-Fil-A sandwiches. My kids like them. There’s no other restaurant around here that sells anything similar. But I don’t eat there anymore ever since they hosted National Day of Intolerance last year. Fuck 'em. Nobody’s making me do this, I’m not really hurting their bottom line, and nobody but me really cares about my position on this. But I care, so I don’t go there anymore. If you care, then don’t shop at HL (or, as a friend of mine calls it, “Jesus Barn”). If you don’t care, then go right ahead. You don’t need to justify your position to anyone except yourself.
Not sure why you’re being snarky as I was simply responding to the OP’s request:
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If you want to boycott Hobby Lobby as a principled stand, you need to not spend money there ever, even if it costs you money, time and energy.
Buying yarn only when it’s cheap (enough) just encourages them to have sales/coupons/deals from time to time to bring in those intermittent customers, and if you don’t think that the average sale price still leaves enough money to cover overhead, . . . I think you don’t know very much about how big business works.
No, and you know it or you wouldn’t be asking strangers to justify your choice.
As an avid crocheter, I would like to fight a little ignorance here – crochet and knitting do not greatly differ in yarn used. Knitting garter and crochet SC use the same amount of yarn in solid-fabric applications. DC and stockingette are only 10% different in solid applications. In lacey applications, crochet uses less. The impression that “crochet uses a lot of yarn” just comes from the fact that it’s usually faster.
I’m not sure why you’re talking about what’s a good option for “most people.” This post is about you. YOU know there are other options, which are just as cheap, if not cheaper, and YOU choose to continue to shop at HL. So either own it and admit you like their yarn more than you hate their politics, or stop shopping there. The idea that you’re socking it to them is delusional.
Edit: If S&C is the best cotton yarn you’ve ever used, your experience must be limited to those few that are worse. S&C is in the bottom 10% of cotton yarns. It’s coarse to handle, I frequently find vegetable matter in it, and it fades.
If you want to buy their yarn, don’t worry about whom they give to. In the big plan, whatever you do will not matter much. Buy the yarn, tell everybody how evil you think HL is, and let it go at that. You owe an explanation to nobody.