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What is anti pilling yarn - Premier Yarn review
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Jun 11, 2025
In this video, I discuss a newer addition to the yarn market, anti-pilling yarn. I also review Premier Yarns anti-pilling DK yarn and the anti-pilling Bamboo chunky yarn. If you think you'd like to try one of these yarns please consider using my affiliate link. I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. https://premier-yarns.pxf.io/MAjeGP Subscribe to the newsletter for monthly discounts, tips and free patterns https:livechilllife.com My books and project trackers: httpslivechilllife.comshop-my-books My vintage recipe cooking channel : httpswww.youtube.com@100yearoldrecipes My Etsy shop: https: livechilllife.etsy.com and https:www.etsy.comshopTinyCottageKitchen Social Media: Instagram: instagram.com/livechilllife TikTok: Livechilllife Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/people/Live-Chill-Life/61559059162110/
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hello my friends i am back with another
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yarn review video from Premiere and in
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this video I'm looking at some
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anti-pilling yarns and I want to go over
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what is anti-pilling yarn
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anyway anti-pilling yarns are
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specifically engineered to resist that
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buzzing and keep your stitches looking
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smooth and neat even after lots of use
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or machine washing they're treated
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during the spinning or finishing process
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to reduce loose fibers and friction
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buildup which means your projects stay
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looking fresh longer especially great
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for garments blankets or any project you
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plan to wash
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often anti-pilling technology has been
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around since the early 20110s but it
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really gained popularity in the mid2010s
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as more companies developed softer more
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durable acrylics and premium blends you
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will see brands like Premiere Lion Brand
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Yarnbe and Style Craft help bring
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anti-pilling yarns into the mainstream
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by offering budget friendly options with
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the better
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longevity now you're seeing anti-pilling
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options in everything from worsted to DK
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weight and the chunky weight that I'm
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showing you in this video and they are
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in tons of colors and styles they become
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a favorite for anyone who wants the
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convenience of acrylic without
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sacrificing the look and feel over time
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pilling is what happens when friction is
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introduced into the equation as you see
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here your beautiful yarn that you start
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out with eventually gets wear and tear
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from friction which you'll notice a lot
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under the arms or on the chest where you
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might have jewelry or you're rubbing up
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against things when you lean maybe to do
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dishes things of that nature even
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something as innocent as wearing a
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shoulder bag and rubbing against your
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beautiful knit or crochet garment can
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cause this friction creating
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unattractive pilling with Joanne closing
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I wanted to do some more yarns that you
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can buy online because we don't know
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what the options will be locally anymore
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now I have heard very recently that
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Michaelels has bought intellectual
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property of Jo-Ann's i don't know what
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that's going to look like as far as the
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yarn selection in the store the I live
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in a big city i'm in the United States
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and I have four Michaels in a reasonable
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distance from where I live that I could
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drive to of course some are closer than
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others but if I needed yarn for a
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project I would be willing to drive up
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to maybe 20 minutes to get it the others
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are you know maybe 4 minutes between 4
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and 20 minutes so for me that would be a
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reasonable amount of time to buy yarn
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for a project all of the selections in
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each of those stores is atrocious the
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shelves are usually at least 60% empty i
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find a lot of the Karen Cakes lines out
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in big bins in the center of the floor
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which is fine i do use Karen yarns um
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but the actual shelves that are
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dedicated to yarns in those stores they
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are always mostly empty and there's
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never enough ever of any color for a
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project so if they can get their act
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together reallocate more room for yarn
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and some of those private label you know
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the big twist line I'd be happy to go
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there and shop for yarn again but
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currently I don't know what the
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situation is it's you know it's a new
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announcement and there would have to be
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some reworking and of course they would
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have to bring in the fabric it's a whole
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thing this video is not for that and I'm
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not the person to look to for news on
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that but I will uh I'll let you know
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what I see if and when something changes
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and my location in case you are able to
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drive to one even if it's a a distance
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away that they might have a better yarn
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selection for you in the near future
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that would be wonderful all right let's
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uh play with these a little bit i have
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my hooks for the chunky and for the DK
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weights all right now this chunky yarn
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this color is gorgeous i don't know how
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it looks on screen but it is a true teal
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blue color i am a green fanatic i am not
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a blue lover but I love some blue green
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tones and this one really caught my eye
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i have a project in mind and I've bought
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several skans and it does encourage you
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to buy enough to complete your project
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the die lot which indicates there's
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probably variation from time to time now
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something nice about this you notice it
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says bamboo i love bamboo yarn i use
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it so much for my summer garments i'm
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very familiar with it it's kind of
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splitty that's just the nature of it
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it's not the yarn company's fault it's
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just the way it is you use a good smooth
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hook it's less problematic but yeah it's
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me but it is so soft and yummy i think
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it's worth it now the addition of this
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this is not a summer yarn this is an
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acrylic yarn with 30% bamboo and that
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really gives it some softness now you
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notice if you've ever touched an
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anti-pilling yarn they tend to be very
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soft and smooth for some of the reasons
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that I talked about when I covered what
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anti-pilling yarn is and this extra
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smoothness here and this has a nice
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springy feel to it i haven't played with
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it yet you see all my skes are still
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untouched i wanted to give first
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impressions
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here but I'm really curious to see what
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the bounce factor is that kind of
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springy feeling okay here's my end now
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this recommends let me see the hook i
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have a 8 mm
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out this recommends for crochet hook 6.5
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mm that seems kind of small for the
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thickness of this yarn it's a category 5
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but it's going to depend on the stitch
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and what you're making with your
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project all right this is the outside
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tail let's get that out of the way
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because we don't want
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that all right let's find this inside
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tail work up some
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chains and see how it
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is curious if it is splitty like bamboo
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yarn typically
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is I think this would be so nice for a
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blanket oh my goodness so
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soft all right chaining up seems all
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right
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tell you this eight is not looking too
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big i mean for a blanket or a shaw scarf
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cardigan anything like that I think it's
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perfectly fine that 6 mm or 6.5 that's
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going to give you a really tight
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stitch and when I use a category 5 for
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like for my ribbed hat I've got this
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size
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hook all right so far no splitting
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slides
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easily gosh it's soft this is really
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nice to work
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with this color is
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gorgeous now the colorways for this
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particular yarn is a little more limited
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you're not going to see the the options
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that you might see for like the base um
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Premier Basics which I've done a review
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on and I was really impressed with all
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of the color options especially the
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brown
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tones and I'll link that video if you
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have not seen
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it yes this is really nice
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i'll have something with this coming up
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somewhat in the future i've got a few
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projects ahead and we have our crochet
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along
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coming but you'll see something with
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this later in the year all right i like
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this very
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nice stitch definition is decent because
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there's a slight um softness to
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it by softness I mean a little bit of a
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I don't know if fuzziness is the right
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word kind of a soft blur look to it i
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don't know if it how it's showing on
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camera but if you see it next to this
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really smooth yarn that kind of soft
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blur effect that it has that's what I'm
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talking about and then of course bamboo
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has that slight sheen which I see in it
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as
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well very nice okay I'm happy with
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this all right now the anti-pilling DK
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this is a category 3
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yarn and this is 100% I believe let me
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check before I even say if I think it's
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one yeah 100% anti-pilling acrylic
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where's the
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end there we go i seem to gravitate
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towards this linen color in so many
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brands
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okay let's try this
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now all right this is a ply yarn i'm
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really curious if this is going to be
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splitty acrylic isn't usually too bad
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for that but you never know
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this has a little bit of a sheen it's an
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elegant
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yarn nice stitch definition let's work a
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few more stitches i'll do half double
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crochet for this i was using uh single
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crochet for the
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bamboo blend
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right i'm not seeing any splitting this
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is not quite as soft as the bamboo which
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I would not expect it to
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be it's working up easily
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now this one says a 4mm hook size on the
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back which is what I'm using and it's
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making quite a tight
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stitch so depending what you're making
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you might even want to go up to a five
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for some drape
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i feel like 4 millimeter i even see
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these recommended on C some category 4
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yarns yes nice stitch definition you can
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see that little bit of a
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sheen gosh this color is so pretty it's
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very
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elegant i'm going to try it i have a 6
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mm furl sitting here i'm going to try
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and hook some up with this let me come
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back and do that all right so I've
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worked up the yarn you see I have two
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here let's first we'll get back to the
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anti-pilling yarn looks very smooth it
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looks much better with the larger hook
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so I have the 6 mm these are half double
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crochet that I
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worked and I have this nearby so this is
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a category 3 just regular acrylic this
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is the baby be sweet delight and you can
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tell just from feeling this this is
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going to pill up so for if you're making
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a baby blanket this I would definitely
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go with because from you know baby
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blankets get a lot of washing generally
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this is going to result in a better
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looking over a period of time for
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baby all right so I can see in this I'm
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wondering if it's going to even show up
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on camera when I was working it so it's
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pretty early morning here the sun is
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shining brightly on my workspace i can
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see the little
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fuzzyness of the acrylic kind of showing
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up here and I talked about that when I
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was mentioning what causes peeling in
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the first
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place and with this one yes there is a
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little bit of the haloing look but it's
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much I mean dramatically less when I
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look at it just there's very little to
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none there
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and this feels smoother i don't know
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that I would say it's softer it's got a
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nice softness these are both pretty soft
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yarns but the treatment that this gets
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on
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it I mean you really can feel the
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difference and it looks with that slight
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sheen it looks a little more elegant
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than this one and the prices are
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comparable this was I believe $5.99 and
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these go on sale all the time this one
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$5.99 at the time of purchase and of
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course the V yarns go on sale every
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other week at 30% off so the prices are
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comparable so let me know if you've used
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anti-pilling yarn which ones you like
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and what you use them or what you have
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used it for in what project and how it's
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holding up for you