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Knitpal Ombre Encore chunky yarn review
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Mar 17, 2025
In this yarn review video I discuss the main types of yarn you will find (not 100% inclusive of yarn types) , compare and contrast for different projects. How does Ombre Encore yarn perform after washing, how easy is it to stitch, how does it feel and how "good" is the ombre effect in the ombre color options. I am am Amazon affiliate. I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you if you make a purchase. Knitpal Ombre Encore yarn on Amazon: https://amzn.to/41JESTq Patterns shown: Violet vibes hat: https://livechilllife.com/crochet-and-knit/crochet-spiral-hat-pattern-with-a-knit-look-stitch/ Spiral multi color hat with faux fur pom: https://www.etsy.com/listing/959000130/knit-pattern-for-alpine-swirl-hat Siren's Song blanket: https://livechilllife.com/featured/beginner-friendly-crochet-textured-no-holes-blanket-pattern/ Chunky cabin ribbed blanket: https://livechilllife.etsy.com/listing/1568396216/chunky-crochet-blanket-pattern-ribbed Subscribe to the newsletter for monthly discounts, tips and free patterns: https://livechilllife.com/ My books and project trackers : :https://livechilllife.com/shop-my-books/ My vintage recipe cooking channel: https://www.youtube.com/@100yearoldrecipes My Etsy shop: https://livechilllife.etsy.com and https://www.etsy.com/shop/TinyCottageKitchen Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/people/Live-Chill-Life/61559059162110/
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in this video I'm going to be reviewing
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the Ombre Encore yarn from nit palal
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this is available on
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Amazon and I teased a short about this
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several days ago where I said it is a
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roving yarn but better so let's talk
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about what I mean by that while I give a
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yarn review
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right so the basic type of Yarns you're
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going to run into when you're choosing
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yarn is a roing style yarn which is this
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these are
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unfinished fibers now with acrylic it's
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intentionally woven this way to give a
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look people who do crafting with it like
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felting they're going to use most likely
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true wool yarn and not acrylic because
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it behaves differently in the felting
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process but this video is geared more
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towards the everyday average Knitter and
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crocheter who shops in retail stores
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online and in
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person all right other types of yarn are
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something I think many of us are
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familiar with Bernat maker which is a
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chainet style yarn and if you look
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closely I always uh think of this like a
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sock it's just got this weave to it very
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smooth doesn't split when you're working
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with it I also used this style of yarn
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with my siren Stitch blanket this is the
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H what is it Karen rainbow cakes and you
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can see again it's this um chainet
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Stitch
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yarn and it has a slight halo effect
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Bernette maker excuse me I haven't
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noticed has a halo effect but the other
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chain Nets that I used have and
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the Ombre Encore yarn is classified as a
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chainet yarn but when you look at it it
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looks more like a roving
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yarn now why I say it's roving yarn but
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better is because if you've never worked
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with roving yarn it's a real pill and
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that's because while it is incredibly
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beautiful and it gives such a expensive
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artisanal look to your finished items if
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you've ever seen a Roven yarn hat or
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blankets they are Exquisite but when you
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try to frog the yarn it's going to
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tangle upon itself because the fibers
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are loose they're not contained like
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you'll see with what you commonly
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probably have been using these plied
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Yarns where the fibers have been woven
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together to ply together these are the
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kind of Yarns that you're going to refer
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to as Yarns that are splitting because
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as you work them the um the pies be can
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become unraveled not always but it's
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sometimes it depends on the fiber how
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Loosely it's woven the category of yarn
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that it is but you might uh when you see
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something being reviewed it's called
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splitty or you're going to say it splits
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a lot when you're working with I find
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that to be the case when I use bamboo
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and bamboo Blended Yarns but I love them
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so I deal with it now another thing
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about roving yarn so you see this end
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how it's just kind
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of
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wispy that's
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because when you're if you have to frog
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it and you go to pull it too much not
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only will it tangle on itself it's going
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to break apart and I'll demonstrate that
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with let me get out my little Reserve
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here so I you I have long hair Rag Doll
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cats and when I brush the body part I
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don't use you know like the business end
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I do save their hair for stuffing
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projects this is one of my alternatives
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to polyfill in my p uh that video that I
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have about this and animal hair since
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it's used to weave natural Yarns why not
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use my free and easy cat hair now look
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what
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happens this is what happens with roving
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yarn since it's unspun as you pull it
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too hard it's going to fray apart like
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that that's very much the look
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of this yarn here I don't know if you
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can see my cats are mostly white so in
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this white background but you see how
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it's just kind of wispy and pulls apart
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that's what happens with the roving yarn
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all right so now let's let's uh talk
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about my review of this yarn because I
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have worked up a
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sample right so this is a chunky yarn it
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is I think it says on here it's a
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category 5 I don't if it says in there
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but that's what it is and I have it work
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the
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same uh stitch in the roving yarn now I
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use this for my Violet Vibes hat it's
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going to be part of a collection same
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Stitch but this is category 4 and then
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when you see
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it here with the Ombre
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yarn they kind of have that similar ring
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yarn
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look now when I start pulling out
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stitches with this yarn you'll notice
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this is a knot
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it's just pulling out just fine there's
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no tangling on itself none of that but
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when I do it with this yarn let me find
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my
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end let's
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see some point I made my stitches pretty
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clean I'm feeling I'm starting to feel
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resistance when I'm pulling these
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because the fibers the haloing that's
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where going to start grabbing on each
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other whereas with this yarn it has
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almost like a coating to it it's keeping
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it really smooth and easy to work with
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and then when you wash it some of that's
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going to release the stitches will fill
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out and you get this beautiful finished
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look something else about this yarn
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that's a little different from the other
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chainet Yarns is
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the kind of the springy feel that it has
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um I always call it bouncy because
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there's other Yarns that I use that have
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almost a spongy feel so they're really
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cozy and
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Squishy which I think is so great for
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blankets and um scarves and Shaws during
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the cold
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weather the Bernette chainet is slightly
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squishy but not like this
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is this while it would be a beautiful
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Stitch definition for um a blanket it's
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really nice for other home decor items
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like
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baskets and it because it doesn't Halo
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you don't I mean I don't think I would
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like a halo effect on my baskets or
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pillows at
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home I find it really smooth and easy to
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work with because of that um I don't
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know if I would say it's coated but it
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does feel like it has a coating to
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protect the fibers from fraying and
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splitting so for beginners I think this
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is a great
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yarn all right so this is dried after
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I've given it the hand
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wash and I'm happy to say it still has
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that same kind of squishy soft smooth
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feel so it's going to maintain that kind
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of light bouncy inviting cozy feel that
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you love in a chunkier
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blanket it has a nice little subtle
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Sheen that did not go away with the wash
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that does happen sometimes with
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Yarns you see the color is still true
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the beautiful gradient that's something
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I want to mention about this yarn not
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all gradients are good but with this
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yarn look how beautiful the transitions
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are there's no choppiness to it and
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that's also something I really like
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about roving Yarns the way that the
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Yarns take the color it's so
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gorgeous yeah I know yellow is probably
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not everyone's favorite I like it I
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think it's a really cheerful color
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but think about this for hats and cowls
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like those beautiful chunky cowls to be
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a statement piece and if you make a
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matching set with something like this
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and it's just an accent that you're
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going to wear for a few hours why not
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get yellow they have a gorgeous fuchsia
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they have you know for people that like
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something a little more toned down they
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have black with the Grays and the whites
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in it that would be really striking with
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a gorgeous Stitch as well there's a
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beautiful blue and they do have solid
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colors now something I want to mention
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is the weight of this
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yarn right so this is very
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lightweight especially for a chunky yarn
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when you're making blankets if you've
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never made a chunky blanket they can get
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very heavy depending on which yarn you
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use now this would create a light weight
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blanket no matter what size you're
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making because it's so bouncy and Airy
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now the uh this is one of my patterns
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it's one of my most popular patterns the
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cozy cabin ribbed chunky blanket this is
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a heavy blanket and because of that the
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likelihood that people are going to use
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the yarn that I'm using for this I only
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show it in a very few sizes I don't show
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it in the big big sizes like something
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that would fit a queen bed or a king bed
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it would just be so so difficult to
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manage to launder all of that of course
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it's gorgeous but if you make it in this
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type of yarn and I have other yarn
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options in this pattern that are more
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lightweight it's not going to have that
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weight you can just throw it around
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throw it in the wash throw it over as a
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bed spread if you have a very large
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sofa because you have a large living
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room and you like those larger
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Furnitures and you love to give that
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handmade touch with your beautiful
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crochet blankets or knit blankets if
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you're a
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this is a really nice option for that
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and it comes in quite a few colors I'll
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put some up on screen and of course I'm
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going to link it in the description and
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you can look at it for
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yourself right now I want to work some
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stitches with you and show you how easy
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it is to work with this yarn so like I
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mentioned I think I mentioned earlier
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that I used um plastic with this a
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plastic hook this is um Clover I'm sure
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a lot of you have this this is a 7 mm
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you could even go up to an eight
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depending on the Stitch that you're
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using of course with chunky yarn you
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always want to do a Swatch and check how
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much drape you're getting out of
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something and with this one having this
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kind
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of oh you know that squishy almost I
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don't think spongy is the right word but
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that's kind of what I mean if you don't
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have enough of a loose kind of a of a
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gauge with it you're not going to get
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that drape it'll just kind of float over
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things instead of settle in to the
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little you know the little nooks and
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crannies of our bodies when we're using
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um using it for blankets and then for
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our hats and
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scarves so for this um this
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Stitch repeat this is a I think this is
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a four row repeat I'm working
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on I used a 7 mm you see it's kind of
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open got kind of open weave to it and
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there's enough drape to it but I think
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for tighter stitches that don't have
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these chain spaces you see me working
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chain spaces I would probably go up to
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eight or even a nine and on the packet
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or on the label rather it's
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recommending for crochet so I don't I
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can knit I just don't knit that much
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it's saying
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6.5 to 9 mm
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I do have n and 10 Mill hooks I just
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think 6.5 would be really tight can't
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imagine what you would make with this
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with a 6.5 mm
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hook right so I'm going to keep working
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all right that is my review for this
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yarn I like it and like with most most
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Yarns your project will determine the
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yarn that you
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use and in this case I was inspired by
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the yarn rather the than the
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project and once I got it I wanted to
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wait and see uh what I would want to
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make with it after I got it because it's
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so hard when you're shopping online and
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with Joanne closing here in America I
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wanted to look at some online options so
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I'm going to be doing reviews here and
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there the rest of this year with some
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online
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Yarns it's just to help you have more
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options and not have to spend your money
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until you know what it's going to behave
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like in for practical purposes it's just
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so hard to
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tell all right give this video a like if
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you found it helpful and what color do
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you like do you love this
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yellow do you have a bad reaction to the
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color
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yellow or what color do you find
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prettiest in the selection I showed you
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on the
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screen and I will see you next time I
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don't know what's coming next if it's
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going to be a pattern or some tips you
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