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Blood-Spattered-Sundress Crew
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 Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:03 pm
So, I woke up this morning and went upstairs. I noticed that a storage bin of yarn was missing. I assumed it was misplaced. I was just told that my future-mother-in-law took it to the school where she works and gave it away and that the bin will come back when it's empty.
In that bin is a skein of wool that I was going to use to make something for a christmas gift. Now it's going to be made into a hat "for christmas". Now, I don't mind donating yarn to be used, I just wish she would have made sure that I wasn't going to use any that she took.
She basically told me that I can't be mad because she said that when we got the yarn from a friend that she would be taking some to school. She said this over a YEAR ago!!
How does something said to me over a year ago make it ok to rape my stash whenever? And I was planning on using the specific yarn she took, too! It was creams and whites and a lot of it too! I'm SOOOOOOO upset right now!
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:25 pm
So unfair!!! TnT I weep for you! *huggles*
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:24 pm
If it was given to you both, then it would be fair to for the woman to say "well, it was partially mine." However, that would make it also partially yours - it's only good manners to check first what you want to keep and what you don't! However, the way you put it suggests that she just "decided" that the yarn was hers...
Man, I feel for you though. I would die if someone took my stash. Just because I'm not using x yarn now doesn't mean I'm not planning on it! All my yarn has a "project" assigned to it, I just can't work on twenty projects at once.
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:28 pm
That is so not cool. I'm sorry to hear that your mil did such a thing. sad
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Blood-Spattered-Sundress Crew
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:48 pm
I knew that a chunk would be given away, but I never knew that she would just take 1/4 of the stash without double checking. I'm more than happy to give away yarn that I didn't have plans for, but to just say "But you weren't using it, you knew I was going to take some" infuriates me! At least have the common sense to say "Hey, I see you knitting CONSTANTLY, I need to pick out some yarn to donate, can you help me so I don't give away something you need?"
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:16 pm
I had to vote for Poll Strumpet but I actually believe it is totally wrong not to check once right before. She didn't even let you sort out what you knew you would use. So rude!
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Blood-Spattered-Sundress Crew
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:19 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:17 pm
I think I'd cry if that happened to me... although I "steal" yarn from my future mother in law. lol
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:00 pm
Sorry your future MIL snatched your stach and ran! She had absolutely no right to just take the bin and run. It was given to BOTH of you, not to her alone. She should have asked you if you had plans for any of the yarn and that she was planning to take it to school.I would find out if there was any way you could get the yarn back, especially the yarn you had plans for!
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 12:13 pm
This might seem like a somewhat odd question, but does your future MIL knit? Or do some other craft like quilting? While it wouldn't excuse what she did, it would explain it. To someone who doesn't knit (or have a similar type hobby) they just might not understand stashing behavior; to them they might see all yarn as interchangeable, and the only projects that are real projects are the one(s) you're working on at the moment and maybe the one right after it.
I would be Decidedly Not Happy if someone took my stash without asking. I would also stress to that person that did it that the fact it was yarn was secondary to the fact that they didn't ask; to the point of asking them how they would feel if I did the same thing to their equivalent of yarn. I would also do some examining our relationship and reexamining their past behavior toward me. But that's just me, and your millage might vary.
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