yarning update
Jun. 14th, 2026 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatFor one of my current 'I should use up some of this yarn' projects, it looks like it's going to wind up using about 12 skeins of yarn. Which is great! During the course of the project, I also purchased 8 skeins of yarn (only two of which were relevant to the project, the others were just 'ooh, yarn!').
So it's really still a net win!
Most importantly, I learned something new. Okay, so I got a BUNCH of Wool-Ease Aire yarn on deep discount, and I definitely read all the reviews that were like 'this yarn is hard to work with' and thought 'how hard could it be?' VERY HARD. It's wildly inconsistent (within skeins and color to color), it sticks to itself constantly, it's so fuzzy you can't see what you've done... and yes, I thought 'oh, I've used yarns like that before, it's totally manageable.' NOT LIKE THIS YARN, I HADN'T.
BUT! I had so much of it that I was determined to find some way to use it that was fun, so I figured out some yarn hacks to make it easier.
1. BIGGER HOOK (the yarn itself recommends a 6 mm hook, I'm using a 9 mm)
2. MOSS STITCH (or any simple stitch where you can stitch into gaps instead of into stitches; this is the one and ONLY project thus far where I've loved the moss stitch, my nemesis)
3. ADD A SECOND YARN (I added Caron Cloud Cakes yarn, which is sooooooo soft and glide-y, it makes the fuzzy sticky yarn easier to work with AND makes the stitches easier to see!)
So it's really still a net win!
Most importantly, I learned something new. Okay, so I got a BUNCH of Wool-Ease Aire yarn on deep discount, and I definitely read all the reviews that were like 'this yarn is hard to work with' and thought 'how hard could it be?' VERY HARD. It's wildly inconsistent (within skeins and color to color), it sticks to itself constantly, it's so fuzzy you can't see what you've done... and yes, I thought 'oh, I've used yarns like that before, it's totally manageable.' NOT LIKE THIS YARN, I HADN'T.
BUT! I had so much of it that I was determined to find some way to use it that was fun, so I figured out some yarn hacks to make it easier.
1. BIGGER HOOK (the yarn itself recommends a 6 mm hook, I'm using a 9 mm)
2. MOSS STITCH (or any simple stitch where you can stitch into gaps instead of into stitches; this is the one and ONLY project thus far where I've loved the moss stitch, my nemesis)
3. ADD A SECOND YARN (I added Caron Cloud Cakes yarn, which is sooooooo soft and glide-y, it makes the fuzzy sticky yarn easier to work with AND makes the stitches easier to see!)
