Hobbii is out of 34 of their 56 colours for their Friends Wool Medium It’s been so for weeks and they don’t even have basic neutrals such as white or navy left. I looked up how much wool I would need for a weight 3 wool here. Based upon this, I thought I was being generous by buying 10 skeins for a size L sweater), but alas, I’m a mere half-skein shor . For the full story and my previous evaluation of Friends Wool Medium by Hobbii, read my update here.
Have you also encountered restocking issues wih Hobbii ? Was it with yarn from their own brands? Let me know in the comments!
When you’re knitting on a budget, you don’t want to have to buy extra wool because the company you are buying from is very slow at restocking their wool. If this is part of Hobbii’s commercial practice and not an unpredicted once in a while problem, I don’t know if I’ll go into the trouble of reviewing anymore of their wool. The whole idea of reviewing their wool was to exploring non-superwash wool options for a sustainable knitting practice, at a somewhat budget-friendly price tag. If people have to take into account the hidden cost of insufficient restocking and subpar customer information, any price comparison becomes spurious.
Furthermore, this experience forces me to re-evaluate my initial review of Friends Wool Medium. If hidden costs like unreliable restocking and poor customer service become the norm, the “budget-friendly” label becomes misleading. After all, what good is a cheap price if you end up scrambling for extra yarn or abandoning projects altogether?
The real cost of “cheap” wool shouldn’t include wasted time, money, and frustration.
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