DO NOT BUY THIS YARN

This is the Noro knock off by Debbie Bliss that JoAnn's is selling for $5.99 a skein.  There's even a thread on Ravelry about it.  Looks kind of nice, doesn't it?  It isn't.  I loved the redish brown tones and thought it would make a lovely ripple scarf for my granny (who isn't a red hat lady but loves every thing red and purple)...nope.  First of all, I couldn't get it to look right when crocheting with it at all.  So I started knitting a scarf like the one I made with the Misti Alpaca.  First I found out it gathers quite a bit but it wasn't too bad...until I got to a point where they knotted two pieces together: a red end and brown end so it immediately changed colors which looked pretty funny but it awful and I'd already knitted a couple of feet so I continued.  Today, the last day I'll ever knit with it, I found that it's actually just fibers wrapped around black core.  It had gathered to the point where there was more of the core yarn than the outside fibers so a quarter inch of the black stuck out. No more.  Anyway, I bought two skeins and am taking this one back.  I'm tempted to toss the one I started to knit with just so that I'll never use it again but I hate to just throw yarn out. 

Anyway, this is a perfect example of why Good Yarn is a bit more expensive.  I have two Christmas project in mind that require Noro and I'm not going to have any trouble what so ever shelling out twelve or thirteen bucks for a skein.

Comments

[V.]

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm usually a sucker for cheap yarn, so that's a great warning!