It is Knitting and Crochet Blog week, and today’s topic is one of the loveliest supplies I could imagine: yarn!
It’s difficult to chose a favorite yarn. As Princess Anne begins her pat speech in Roman Holiday, “…each in its own way…” Yet there have been some standouts. Foremost is the yarn that Scout custom dyed for me for my wedding shawl. The Zephyr wool-silk is a great beginner’s lace weight. It’s not as sticky as Kid Silk Haze, but it is sticky enough to enable the novice lace knitter some leeway when trying to fix a dropped stitch. I wouldn’t generalize lace weight yarns as workhorses, but Zephyr really is!
Selecting a yarn I’ve disliked is more challenging. If I don’t like a yarn, I shun it quickly. Life, as the cliche goes, is too short to knit with less-than-fabulous yarns. The one thing that comes to mind also reveals me for the yarn snob I am: squeaky acrylic. A few years back I had a lot of fun making amigurumi, and I purchased yarn that didn’t feel or smell like yarn should. I hated every moment of working with it, but I wanted to make my crazy octopus princess. As soon as she was completed, I threw the remaining yarn into a bag to donate!
How about you, yarny? What would your tale of two yarns include? The good? The bad? The beautiful? The ugly?
