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January 10, 2007
The coolest new yarn!
The afghan that I'm crocheting now is made of cotton yarn. Cool colored cotton yarn, but cotton none the less. I hate crocheting with cotton!!!! There is no "give" in the yarn, and it makes my hands tired to work it. If I crochet for long, my palm of my left hand (which holds the yarn for me to hook into) gets achy. So I can't see the end of this afghan soon enough!
So, I decided to treat myself to some cool new yarn to give me an incentive to push through this afghan and start the next. And here's the cool new yarn I found at JoAnn's:
It's called Baby Bubbles. You can't see so well from the picture, but it is standard baby yarn for a base with largish tufts or tabs of different colors sticking out of it. Because of the tufts, you have to use a much larger hook than you would expect--at least an I hook, which I thought was crazy 'til I did a test sample.
I think I'll just do a baby granny, but all one color. This yarn makes it hard to count stitches, so the easier the pattern the better, I think. Don't know, I'll just have to try and see.
Posted by MamaT at January 10, 2007 7:48 AM
Comments
Bernat makes the coolest yarns! I made a couple of scarves last winter with their Boa yarn, and they were great. The only downside is that the yarn - the Boa, at least - tangles like mad, so I had to start unraveling each ball immediately and wrapping it around a paper towel tube. Once I figured that out, I loved working with it!
I was knitting, though, not crocheting.
Posted by: Arwen at January 10, 2007 10:05 AM
that looks cool, i need to pop into joannes again soon. i went in friday but only to buy some ribbon for something. I LOVE knitting with cotton, i seem to be in the minority for that though most people say what you say. i'm weird.
Posted by: aisling at January 10, 2007 11:39 AM
Dang! That yarn looks sweet!
Just be careful....twisty yarn like that is hard to undo (frog)...
Posted by: Miz Booshay at January 12, 2007 4:18 PM