Hey! Does anyone have any good recommendations for where u can get some natural fiber sock yarns? I’ve gone to hobby lobby and their selection is extremely limited. I live on the southern east coast in the states if it helps. Thankyou!

Can I use them interchangeably. I want to make some dish cloths and face scrubbies but I'm not sure if the mercenarised one will be as absorbent as normal one? I recently was gifted a lot of it so I want to put it to good use without having to go out and buy plain cotton yarn.

I'm starting small with selling my makes and I don't have a lot of money to buy the yarn with to start, what cotton yarn (3 or 4 weight) will go the furthest for the least money?

I'm currently leaning towards Friends Cotton 8/8 from Hobbii

Thanks for the answers everyone!!! Love it!

Hi all:

I am looking to get my spouse some yarn as a gift. I'm not a knitter myself but I do know enough to know that she likes small dyers or at least better-than-Joanns-grade yarns. She has had good success with Zauberball's before and she likes to do projects that are fairly big, maybe 800-1200yds. I'd like to get her a big ball or couple of them so she can do a project. Something that starts with one color and slowly changes to something else.

I wanted to get her something other than the Zauberball because she's had plenty of those. Can someone suggest a good color-change yarn that comes in a decent-size ball or cake that's dyed on a high-quality base? Ideally at least 400yds or more. Weight would be fingering or DK.

Thanks all, I hope I'm not in the wrong spot but I figured general knitting sub was probably too big.

I want to start a crochet top I have seen and it calls for King Cole Cottonsoft DK. It’s £4.50 a ball or so and I would like a cheaper option. I have seen that Lovecrafts Paintbox is only half that for 50g so I’d need to order more.

Is all DK cotton the same? Or are some softer than others? As it’s a top I don’t want it to be scratchy!

Does it need a flower?? 🌸

My yarn stash was getting out of control. And with it being in our guest room I needed it to look prettier.

I got mohair in 2 sizes, 1 being fingering (i think its 1) and the other being worsted (4) what should i do with it? I dont rlly wanna make any sweaters or scarfs though

This is a leftover yarns project. I know that cotton and wool shouldn't be mixed due to different stretch/strink when being washed. However, is it possible to mix 100% cotton yarn and 80%cotton 20% polyester yarn? The 100 cotton will be used for the body of the sweater, and the 80cotton 20 poly will be used for the sleeves of a sweater.

About 30 years ago I bought a throw blanket kit from Hobby Lobby. It came with a piece of mesh that was really flexible but not fabric and you just wove the yarn through the holes in the mesh, then tied the yarn ends to make fringe. It came out beautifully.

I've thought about that technique over the years and wondered how to make one again, because it was super fast and easy and looks awesome, but I don't remember anything about the kind of mesh. All I remember is that it draped like fabric but wasn't.

Now I'm considering making a temperature blanket for 2025. Trying to crochet it might be a little too much for my time but if I could weave one like the one from back in the day I could probably keep it up.

Does anyone have any ideas or memory of the kit? I've tried to look it up online, but it's too crowded with crochet/knitting/fleece no-sew to find out what it's called or anything about that technique.

I recently got this beautiful mahogany vintage wool yarn but it's super itchy and rough. I don't have any pictures but I'm not really worried with how it looks. Like I know I'd hate to have this kind of yarn on my skin type rough. I really wanna make something with it but I have no idea what 😓

I'm visiting a friend in Chicago in a few weeks, and I was hoping to get some yarn shop recommendations! I'm hoping to buy some yarn that's dyed locally! I thought it would be fun to make a cute hat or something on the train ride back with yarn I bought there. Thanks in advance, you're all beautiful!!!

Edit:My friend has informed me that they are specifically in the Evanston area, and I have been informed how big Chicago is!

Anyone have any idea what yarn this might be? My coworker’s mom passed away recently and my coworker passed some of her yarn and knitting supplies on to me. I want to make her something with her mom’s yarn and if possible, I would like to identify this yarn from her mom’s stash so I can buy more of one of the neutral colors for the project. Yarn is acrylic as confirmed by a burn test. Appears to be fingering weight, probably from a big box store based on the other yarns I received. It’s all in commercially made balls, I only have about 20 grams in each ball, but these were obviously used in a project so I can’t say what the original weight was. Any guesses based on this info and the palette?

I reused a yarn from an unwanted blanket. It’s very pretty. I’m in the UK. It feels anti pilling and the squares were made with 4mm. It’s very Neapolitan in terms of colours but google hasn’t provided me with an answer. If anyone has any idea, please.

Hi folks! I am making my daughter a blanket with this. It’s two strands of super wash wool and one strand of this sparkly stuff. It’s a little scratchy where the sparkle is, and a little white. I’m debating adding a strand of mohair lace weight to it to soften it up. Would it be too fuzzy on the skin or face? We have an alpaca blanket my aunt made a long time ago and it feels awful. So fuzzy that it feel like it sticks to skin and face. Kind of like when a cat touches your face and you have fuzzies all over. Can I get your thoughts?

Just came in the mail from SeattleSkyDyeworks! Been waiting for this, and it’s so pretty and squishy. Helping someone in the process - absolutely worth it. Kudos to the shop for doing that sale.