Comments on: "It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep"

By: Jenn

Jenn — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:53:34 +0000

Love the post title…that is exactly how my aunt got one of her pet goats. Showed up in a flock of sheep and just didn’t fit in!

By: j.

j. — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:54:59 +0000

Gee, now I wish I had paid more attention at the zoo yesterday!

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:43:02 +0000

I thought that goats’ tails went up and sheep’s tails went down.

At least for most goats and sheep.

By: alwen

alwen — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:41:30 +0000

And just to be obnoxious and quibble with your post title, it depends on the breed of goat and sheep. In Chinese there is apparently one word that covers both. I know I’ve seen some creatures at county fairs where I wouldn’t have known which to call them if they hadn’t had labels on the pens.

By: j.

j. — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:09:45 +0000

Minor point — Noro is *not* part of this complaint, but the test results happen to include it… and you’re right, it’s not manufactured in the same place…

… and, remembering that an Adrienne Vittadini and a Jo Sharp yarn were recalled by JCA (and I don’t know where they were manufactured, for example if it was the same mill as the Debbie Bliss yarns), it seems there may have been a bit of an epidemic. If this is a problem experienced by more than one distributor, and possibly by more than one mill, could the source of the problem be further upstream — the cashmere producer or a broker?

This wouldn’t change the fact that if the Langley tests are accurate, the yarn was mislabelled, and there were different ways of dealing with it once the distributor learned about it.

By: Emma in France (lloer on Rav)

Emma in France (lloer on Rav) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:32:59 +0000

I need to come back to read this post when my head isn’t so fuzzy due to a cold.

I think I will quietly bow out of the Ravelry thread, if I don’t I will soon stop being calm and rational.

I find it interesting that Noro are being dragged into this, both in the complaint and on Ravelry. AFAIK, Noro is merely distributed by KFI(US), Designer Yarns (UK) and others. Am I right in thinking that the spinning takes place in Japan?

I suppose I shouldn’t be so surprised at people’s abilities to jump to huge conclusions, to ignore facts and to fail to reserve judgement until they have all the facts. It’s nothing really new after all but it still saddens me.