Disliked to Loved Yarns

Because I go through a lot of yarn I keep a pretty healthy stash of it. This was the state of my stash the last time I cleaned out and organized it back in 2024. Every time I work on whittling down my stash I donate what I don't think I'll use to the local thrift store. Because I've since acquired a bunch of new yarns via thrifting I'll have to do that again soon.

So what yarn do I pass along? My least favorite varieties, of course. This can be due to the type of yarn and/or the color. Life is too short to work with materials I dislike from the get go.

Baby and boucle yarn (this skein is both.) The colors are always insipid pastels, usually spun with some kind of vicose white strand, the texture of boucle is unpleasant to me, and I dislike how it looks after crocheting it. Also due to the light weight it takes forever for me to work it up into something.

Yarn with a lot of halo. Not only is it almost impossible to frog miscounted stitches due to the shagginess of the yarn, it looks old and sloppy when crocheted. This also goes for eyelash yarn.

This ribbon yarn, which I actually do think is pretty. I just can't figure out what to do with it.

Now that I've griped, let's look at my favorite yarns.

Handspun art yarn. It's very expensive, and I can't really afford it, but oh, it's so pretty.

Tweed or speckled yarn. Unlike eyelash yarn (or the kind with tons of halo) I like yarns with bits of other colors mixed in. The more unusual, the better. They make great-looking wearable projects. I have four skeins of this cream with black bits that I'm saving for the right scarf or shrug project.

Red Heart Super Saver yarns. I absolutely love this brand of acrylic yarn. It's soft without being too soft, it works up quickly, looks like a dream and there are never any knots in it. It's a real workhorse of a yarn.

What is my #1 favorite yarn of all time? Variegated yarn, of course. It works up in such interesting ways, and it never bores me while I'm working with it. I just thrifted a lot with this lovely skein in it (it's a Red Heart Super Saver Multicolor; I can tell those from a mile away) and I'm saving it for something special. I can never have enough variegated yarn.

I found another skein of the same variegated yarn with the label in that lot, and looks like I was right. Yay!

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