Knitting and crochet blog week- A tale of two yarns

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Whoop! It is blog week again, I like this as it is a challenge to post daily without actually having to think of the topics. I did look at the topics in advance, with the plan to get ready beforehand, maybe even to write the posts. I have done nothing productive apart from think about what to do on day 5 and suffering from a lack of ideas. Anyway, I will worry about that in five days time, here is day 1.

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The topic for this is "A tale of two yarns". I have decided to go down the like/loathe, first up the loathe- It is Four Seasons Grundl Hot socks Rainbow (a sock yarn I don't love- this is a bit of a shock!)

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Actually loathe is a mean word, because even this has redeeming features- I do like the colours and the long repeats with blended colour changes. It is also soft when knitted up.

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Unfortunately it is super splitty, which makes it a pain to knit, and really fluffy which makes it a nightmare to pull apart. I had to try two patterns with this- Baana, which I went wrong with and fell foul of the "its difficult to frog element" (always check for errata!).

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Then I broke my 3.5mm needle tip and it has sat looking like this for over a year now. I think I will attempt to frog it and give the yarn to someone who might love it.

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The yarn I would least like to be given would have to be a super cheap acrylic in baby pink. Although I appreciate the uses of acrylic the really cheap stuff is just not pleasant and I am not a pastels fan.

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On to a much more positive aspect, the love. This was really tricky, I scrolled through my file of stash photos and had to say there was something I loved about each of them- the colour, the squishiness, all sorts of things.

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I had to pick one though so I went for the one with the most interesting story behind it for me. This is a handspun 2 ply sock weight. It was the first roving I dyed, the first decent yarn I spun using a drop spindle and I made it into socks- a lot of favourite things there :D. s

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I love the colours too, it is a mix of blue, turquoise, grey and green.

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I can list the qualities of my dream yarn- soft, smooth, nice colours (I am quite into semi solid brights at the minute, but this changes), a thickish sock weight, springy when worked into ribbing and machine washable as I am lazy. I will just have to keep buying yarn until I find what I am looking for, what a shame! ;)