images will be added once I get settled in from work saturday!
So short that I forgot it only had 28 and not 30! I do that rather often, even if I have a calendar. Good news everyone! I finally got hired somewhere. It's a pretty great place to work, the people are all keen on selling goods over trashing them--and it has an amazing staff policy I fully intend to utilize. Let's get on with this(last) month's review as two! One more mystery yarn after this one. I'll let you guess what it is! ;) I'll give a hint...it's fuzzy!
This month I got into Crocheting some items. I made, a Tunisian hook rug, a granny square bathroom rug and I'm *still* working on a vest for my mother. The yarn is basically sock yarn, so forgive my slowness on it. Barely made the first button. Working my way up though! :)
This was actually an order I finished awhile back. The person ordering wanted red wine colors, so I picked two commonly seen colors. It's actually the same stitch I use to create the faux ribbing for the hat below, and it is a reversible stitch as well. I did a basic knit for the inside of the hood, using the grape colored yarn. The buttons are not decorative! I made the stitch loose enough so the person could configure the buttons in any fashion, even make a "drape" with it if they desired. Very versatile and will most hopefully be a "go to" item if it gets a bit nippy outside.
I am very excited about this particular yarn for this month. It is another wonderful skein from Lion Brand that they sent me to review!
Some of the best color palette I have EVER seen came in this particular type of yarn. I crocheted this hat using a P hook, and on the bus I found it was an amazing and orderly yarn to work from the skein. It went so quickly that I finished before the bus even got close to where I needed to be(it was about an hour and thirty minutes to the stop I normally get off at). As I worked the yarn it practically felt like silk in my fingers. The brim of the hat is also crocheted, but I use a stitch I figured out from tinkering to make a faux ribbed stitch without all the extra hand work one would normally need. It is also done using a smaller crochet hook(size I is normally best, just to maintain the stitch ratio and prevent sagging later on).
Softness:5/5
Price:5/5(do a net check, then a store check for this one, totally worth every penny!)
Color:5/5
Ease of use: 5/5(knot the end you start with and you'll have no problems even if you do have to take out a stitch or two!)
Buy this one! Oh my gosh buy this one. I haven't had the honor of working with yarn like this since using the luxurious stuff I won last year! I'm still not done reviewing all of it actually. Maybe next month?? Come back and find out!
So short that I forgot it only had 28 and not 30! I do that rather often, even if I have a calendar. Good news everyone! I finally got hired somewhere. It's a pretty great place to work, the people are all keen on selling goods over trashing them--and it has an amazing staff policy I fully intend to utilize. Let's get on with this(last) month's review as two! One more mystery yarn after this one. I'll let you guess what it is! ;) I'll give a hint...it's fuzzy!
This month I got into Crocheting some items. I made, a Tunisian hook rug, a granny square bathroom rug and I'm *still* working on a vest for my mother. The yarn is basically sock yarn, so forgive my slowness on it. Barely made the first button. Working my way up though! :)
This was actually an order I finished awhile back. The person ordering wanted red wine colors, so I picked two commonly seen colors. It's actually the same stitch I use to create the faux ribbing for the hat below, and it is a reversible stitch as well. I did a basic knit for the inside of the hood, using the grape colored yarn. The buttons are not decorative! I made the stitch loose enough so the person could configure the buttons in any fashion, even make a "drape" with it if they desired. Very versatile and will most hopefully be a "go to" item if it gets a bit nippy outside.
I am very excited about this particular yarn for this month. It is another wonderful skein from Lion Brand that they sent me to review!
*Review Time!*
Da Vinci(Wine; 55 yd ;
53% Wool, 47% Acrylic)
Some of the best color palette I have EVER seen came in this particular type of yarn. I crocheted this hat using a P hook, and on the bus I found it was an amazing and orderly yarn to work from the skein. It went so quickly that I finished before the bus even got close to where I needed to be(it was about an hour and thirty minutes to the stop I normally get off at). As I worked the yarn it practically felt like silk in my fingers. The brim of the hat is also crocheted, but I use a stitch I figured out from tinkering to make a faux ribbed stitch without all the extra hand work one would normally need. It is also done using a smaller crochet hook(size I is normally best, just to maintain the stitch ratio and prevent sagging later on).
Softness:5/5
Price:5/5(do a net check, then a store check for this one, totally worth every penny!)
Color:5/5Ease of use: 5/5(knot the end you start with and you'll have no problems even if you do have to take out a stitch or two!)
Buy this one! Oh my gosh buy this one. I haven't had the honor of working with yarn like this since using the luxurious stuff I won last year! I'm still not done reviewing all of it actually. Maybe next month?? Come back and find out!
