Wonderful Wool

Well the wool I found yesterday, looks lovely, BUT it is a complete and utter pain to knit, as it has "popcorn" pieces every few inches on the yarn. No wonder the pattern suggests just knitting it!
Anything more complex would be lost in it, and would cause the knitter to use many strange sounding adjectives.
The pattern supplied with the wool is far from clear, and I had to pull it back, as it just kept getting wider and wider, and when I was struggling to keep all the stitches on the needle at the start of the row, when I'd only strarted off with 12, I just KNEW something was not quite right.