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Yarn snob? Not me

I've always knit with natural fibres. My mother calls all yarn "wool" and expects it to be so. She's also the woman who walked in Cotton On, asked them if they had anything cotton and when they could only find synthetic garments, she asked them why they were called Cotton On, and left. 

I normally knit with wool. In recent years I've been trying to avoid superwash wool, because of environmental issues, and because garments knit with superwash don't keep their shape as well, they tend to droop. When I decided to make a cardigan for Bee, I knew it would have to be cotton, linen or synthetic, since she's a vegan (or a Beegan, as we like to call her).

I found a sparkle pink yarn on-line for 30 american dollars a skein. It would have made for an expensive cardigan, but worth it for a beautiful friend. And then it wasn't actually in stock anywhere. And then I found a sparkle acrylic at Spotlight. It was half price, and cost two dollars seventy a ball. So cheap!

Knitting with it has been fine. It's very soft, and doesn't feel squeeky, or like it's made from plastic. It's also quite strong and doesn't feel like it's going to pill, because of the long fibre length that you can get from extruding the plies. It's not too hard on the hands either, which was something I was worried about.

The main issue is the smell. It doesn't have one. I've been using sheepier and sheepier yarns, but even the standard, highly processed sock yarns have some sort of smell. This has nothing. Weird. It's knitting up well, and I'm seeing Bee on Sunday, so I'll finally get to try it on her.

  

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