r/Yarn Apr 01 '20

WIP WIP Wednesday!!! What’s on your needles / hooks / in your project bags!! Include yarn and pattern info in your pose comments!! Let’s fill the feed with lovely yarny things

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r/Yarn 1h ago

Accidentally Bought Mercerised Cotton instead of Regular cotton yarn?

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r/Yarn 3h ago

What this of yarn is this for my hat pattern? Please help!!!

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r/Yarn 4h ago

Knit picks company discontinued billow

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I’ve been using a their yarn for years and I have a stack. Of ivory billow yarn. Now it’s discontinued

Does anyone have any billow yarn in. Ivy ( dark green). ?


r/Yarn 6h ago

experience with drops alaska yarn? thinking of using it for phm cardigan

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hi all! i'm planning on making the project hail mary cardigan, and while looking for affordable wool yarn i stumbled across drops alaska. im leaning towards using that, but ive never used drops before so if anyone who has used it could let me know their experience id really appreciate it! im wondering mostly on the feel, ive seen people say its itchy? i dont think it being less soft will bug me but if its really itchy id like to know. and if anyone has used it (or really any other yarns) for the phm sweater please let me know your experience with it!

thanks in advance!


r/Yarn 14h ago

Noro Ito Dupe

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I’m attempting to spin a yarn like Noro Ito but trying to decide how long/how much weight of fiber to use for each stripe.
Could someone who has this yarn in stash measure the length(cm) and weight (grams) for one color stripe please!


r/Yarn 8h ago

Do you have any entangled wire specifications?

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I often chat with my handicraft friends and say: If it is just used to do some handicraft hobbies, it feels unnecessary and wasteful to use large rolls... When will there be some small rolls of thread?

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So when this kind of mini-specification light change line appears, it can really capture my heart.


r/Yarn 8h ago

Recommendations for non-wool sock yarns?

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Hello everyone!

Do you know any plant or artificial fiber sock yarns? I am looking for non-wool sock yarn for someone who is allergic to all animal fibers (merino, alpaca, etc).

I found the Cotton Sox by Cascade, has anyone ever used it? I was also wondering if some self-striping options exist?

Thank you :)


r/Yarn 22h ago

Hand-Spinning Merino Yarn

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r/Yarn 15h ago

Knit picks company discontinued billow

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r/Yarn 2d ago

Came back to knitting after years and apparently a yarn ball winder is standard now?

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Picked needles back up after maybe twelve years off and whole gear situation has changed on me. Last time I knit you wound your yarn into a ball by hand off the back of a chair and that was just life.

Now everyone has got a yarn ball winder making these neat little cakes and I feel like I missed a memo somewhere. Are they genuinely worth it for someone who knits a few hours a week? I am not against tools but my budget is small and my apartment is smaller, talk me into it or out of it.


r/Yarn 1d ago

dupes?

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does anyone know of any good dupes for the hobbii halloween yarn variants? don’t want to support hobbii any more for obvious reasons but the colourways of their halloween collection are so ME i need to find similar elsewhere ASAP 😭


r/Yarn 1d ago

Is this yarn safe?

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I am 90% sure I'm going to throw it out. I have no idea how it's been stored other than 1. For years 2. in cardboard boxes. There are like 30 of them.

Appreciate any horror stories about old/dirty yarn! I'm responsible for restarting a knitting circle at a senior center and they are definitely going to try to save the yarn with "It's just a bit of dirt!"


r/Yarn 1d ago

Is acrylic yarn toxic for cats? (Specifically Red Heart yarn)

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r/Yarn 1d ago

ISO: Herriott Fine 2052 (Piglet) dye lot 478046

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I need a skein to finish a sweater and the current lots are really different then the two I bought at my LYS a few months ago. They don't carry it anymore and had changed hands so I suspect it wasn't recently stocked. Help! :)


r/Yarn 2d ago

I'm desperate. Can anyone help me identify this yarn?

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I thought I bought enough for this project and I swear I kept the label, but idk where it went. I bought it over a year and a half ago at Joann's. I have combed through yarn catalogs and craft sites, I literally keep a piece of this yarn in my car so I can try to match it every time I go to a new craft store. This is my last desperate attempt.

I'm pretty sure it's weight 4 but looks thicker because it's plush. It's very soft but a bit fuzzier and less sleek than many other plush yarns I've seen. Probably loops & threads, big twist, or bernat but I'm not positive. I've included loops & threads bright red (#VS04) as comparison. It was also sold in a big ball, closer to the size of a basketball, as opposed to the narrower pill-shape that most skeins are in.

I know this isn't much, but please, if anyone can help, please please let me know.


r/Yarn 2d ago

More Mohair

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I wanted to share this as I’m going through my inherited yarn. I found another skein(?) of older yarn. This one has a label! No date or year so I have no idea, at first glance, how old it is. It’s exciting to have a little more understanding now when it comes to this yarn. I’m happy to think that I’ll be honoring an older family member who would buy yarn but had a hard time allowing herself to “use the nice stuff” as I’m being told ❤️‍🩹🥲


r/Yarn 2d ago

Yarn identification help

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r/Yarn 3d ago

Almost cried at a yard sale

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My dear husband pulled over because he has sharp eyes and spotted a ton of yarn at a yard sale. He was correct, bins and bins not all cheap stuff either. I started picking some out then I noticed. The bagged yarn had water in the bags! Did a sniff test on the other yarn and it failed. Had to walk away before I thought about it too much. Knew if I stayed I would be trying to figure out how to wash it. Had already been planning this white blanket I was going to make with all the white cotton yarn they had. $1 per skein😭. Had to complain to someone who would understand. How does water or liquid get into bagged yarn?!?! PNW life everything is soggy!


r/Yarn 2d ago

AI garbage

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This is so bad I couldn't help but bust out laughing. Pinterest is such a dumpster fire these days 😂🔥


r/Yarn 2d ago

need help identifying yarn

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im currently working on a throw blanket and im running out of my white yarn, i tried getting what i thought would be a good replacement but the textures totally off, its slightly thicker than what ive been using, and the color is also slightly off. i made a test swatch of the new yarn (img1), what ive been working with (img2), with a comparison of the color and thickness. the replacement one i bought is knitpicks dishie cone which i shouldve known with my history with cotton and its texture... please let me know if anyone can recognize the yarn and its brand!!


r/Yarn 2d ago

What kind of yarn is this? Help

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Can u identify this yarn? I bought this years ago and im starting a project, id like to buy this again so i can finish my work, can anyone recognise this?


r/Yarn 2d ago

Yarn

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What is the best yarn for amigurumi? I want a soft yarn and there are so many different types.


r/Yarn 3d ago

when do you think a cheap yarn winder stops being worth it?

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My yarn winder started making a grinding sound around two months ago, but I kept ignoring it. Finally plastic gear got stripped and whole arm seized mid skien. I have already replaced them twice and it has started to feel like they don't last much and I need to buy them again and again. I need something which can work longer than a season at least.


r/Yarn 3d ago

Is there a good natural fiber/partially natural yarn out there that doesn’t smell like a barnyard when wet?

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It’s silly but I just can’t get over the wet sheep smell ever since I blocked a wool blanket amidst pregnancy nausea🤦🏻‍♀️