Fiber content: 50% soy 50% acrylic
1 Ball Contains: 70g, 134yards/122m
Price: $3.99
Weight and Type: Worsted (it seems more like Sport to me), plied
Label’s Gauge and Needle Size: 19 sts and 24 rows = 4″ in st st with US8/5mm needles
My Gauge, Pre-Wash: 19.5 sts and 23 rows = 4″ in st st with US7/4.5mm needles; crochet – 16 sts and 21 rows = 4″ in st st with H/4.5mm hook
Post-Wash: 18.75 sts and 24 rows = 4″ in st st with US7/4.5mm needles; crochet – 16.5 sts and 21 rows = 4″ in st st with H/4.5mm hook
Colour Range: Shown in Celery, also comes in 7 more colours, all solid and pale.
Washing Instructions: “Machine Washing and Drying – Wash in water not exceeding 40c/104F. Tumble dry on low heat, delicate setting. Do not bleach, do not iron or press, do not dry-clean.”
I had to play with the colours a lot in Paint.net to get them close to right, and they’re still off. It’s a pale green, not something that I would name celery. It doesn’t look like the picture on the Bernat website. Either way, it’s a pale green that isn’t really one of my colours, but isn’t an ugly shade, either.
The yarn is soft and has a nice body to it. It’s easy to work with, feels great against the skin, and only changes a little after washing. It is a little high maintenance, as with all soft yarns (easy to pill, or catch on something), and I’d stick to the delicate cycle on warm or cold for washing. It works up smaller than a worsted weight, at least for the way I knit, somewhere between a sport and a worsted. Bernat soy is also fairly drapy, and as with most soy yarn, tends to grow, so that needs to be taken into account when making clothing or anything that’s meant to fit a certain way. It probably won’t hold ribbing well.
I have sent e-mails to Bernat, begging them to make colours aside from pale blue, pale green, flax (which doesn’t go with my skin tone), pale pinks (which I just don’t like), white and oatmeal, but so far, they haven’t listened. If you’ve seen this yarn and like it also, send an e-mail, or write them a letter. Or even if you have 5 minutes and feel like helping me out. Dark colours would be nice, as well as more blues, purples and reds, maybe some variegated.
This is also the same type of yarn that I used for my dyeing experiment some time ago, which I later found leads to bleeding when using koolaid yarn. I still wear my koolaid-dyed headband a lot, which never gets wet.
As for this green yarn, it’ll probably turn into a hat or something for my husband’s 2-month-old niece.
