[CHAT] Loops and Threads aida is vile
What the title says.
I haven't stitched on 14-ct black in a long time so I was raiding my stash for materials and this is all I had on hand, back from when I first started out and thought it would be a great idea to buy a bunch of packages of it. I must've been trying to hit the Michael's free shipping minimum or something.
Anyway, I'm using it for a small project and figured it wouldn't be that bad...but yuck!! I now remember all the reasons I quit using it. So scratchy, so stiff, shreds the floss, attracts all the cat hair in the house, feels gross in my hand, edges catch on everything. The only good thing is it's so stiff that it doesn't even fray. I would donate the rest of my supply but that feels like setting someone else up, under the guise of generosity, for as much annoyance as I'm currently experiencing.
I even tried pre-washing another roll to see if that helped and it did NOT, now I just have wrinkly stiff gross scratchy aida that needs to be ironed. Michael's needs to go sit in time out for this nonsense.