Novelty Yarns

Week 3 = Catalog Yarn

Day 4 = January 18, 2014

     There's a great website, Knitting Brain, and they have an awesome Knitting Personality Test. The test is super quick with 7 questions. I'm an Artistic Knitters and a weakness of mine is novelty yarns. Now you'd ask what is a novelty yarn? I consider a novelty yarn the $1 or $2 unique/different looking yarns that you can buy at place like A.C. Moore and Big Lots. Another common trait is a lack of information on the label, such as color, yarn size and other items. Keep an eye out for how many times "Not Listed" is filled in when I'm describing the yarns below.

     This morning I brought out a lot of my yarn so that I could take pictures without my husband around because of our differing opinions about all the STUFF we have in our house.

     So let's get started with the Novelty Yarns.

Company: Nicole Quality Value

Line:  Basic Yarn II

Color: Not Listed

Yarn Size: Not Listed

Yardage: 119 yds - 108.8m

Weight: 1.7 oz - 50 g

Fiber Content: 100% Acrylic

Purpose: I have a pair if socks on the needles with this yarn, only the color is gray and orange. I also have a friend, Pat, that just made a shawl pattern called "The Hitchhiker" with this same pink and gray color and it looks gorgeous.

 

Company: Nicole Quality Value

Line: Basic Yarn II

Color: Not Listed

Yarn Size: Not Listed

Yardage: 119 yds - 108.8 m

Weight: 1.7 oz - 50 g

Fiber Content: 100% Acrylic

Purpose: I just love the coloring of this yarn and who could resist for $1 per skein.

 

 

Company: Nicole Quality Value

Line: Fashion Yarn II

Color: Not Listed

Yarn Size: Not Listed

Yardage: 212 yds - 193.8 m

Weight: 1.7 oz - 50 g

Fiber Content: 95% Acrylic & 5% Metallic

Purpose: I just liked the colors and the metallic shine.

 

 

Company: Nicole Quality Value

Line: Basic Yarn

Color: Not Listed

Yarn Size: Not Listed

Yardage: 85 yds

Weight: 1.7 oz - 50 g

Fiber Content: 70% Acrylic & 30% Polyester

Purpose: Pretty and inexpensive... I don't need a purpose.

 

 

Company: Nicole Quality Value

Line: Fashion Yarn

Color: Not Listed

Yarn Size: Not Listed

Yardage: 67 yds

Weight: 1.7 oz - 50 g

Fiber Content: 100% Polyester

Purpose: Pretty and inexpensive... I don't need a purpose.

 

 

Company: Nicole Quality Value

Line: Novelty Yarns

Color: Not Listed

Yarn Size: Not Listed

Yardage: 52 yds

Weight: 1.7 oz - 50 g

Fiber Content: 70% Acrylic & 30% Nylon

Purpose: Pretty and inexpensive... I don't need a purpose.

 

 

Company: Nicole Quality Value

Line: Fashion Yarn

Color: Not Listed

Yarn Size: Not Listed

Yardage: 47 yds

Weight: 1.7 oz - 50 g

Fiber Content: 70% Nylon & 30% Acrylic

Purpose: This is a great accent yarn. I made a plain pink bag for my daughter and jazzed it up with stripes of this fluffy looking yarn in with the existing pink yarn.

 

 

Company: Nicole Quality Value

Line:  Basic Yarn II

Color: Not Listed

Yarn Size: Not Listed

Yardage: 37 yds - 33.8 m

Weight: 1.7 oz - 50 g

Fiber Content: 100% Polyester

Purpose: The softness of this reminded me of brand new fleece.

 

 

Company: Gala Yarns

Line: Mixed Fiber

Color: Not Listed

Yarn Size: Not Listed

Yardage: Not Listed
Weight: 1.7 oz - 50 g

Fiber Content: Acrylic, Polyester & Nylon (no percentages listed)

Purpose: Pretty and inexpensive... I don't need a purpose.

 

 

Company: Gala Yarns

Line: Mixed Fiber

Color: Not Listed

Yarn Size: Not Listed
Yardage: Not Listed
Weight: 1.7 oz - 50 g

Fiber Content: Acrylic, Polyester & Nylon (no percentages listed)

Purpose: This seemed like a pretty spring color combo.

 

 

     The mischievous yarn monster strikes again. Missing labels are a regular occurrence in a knitter's yarn stash.

Purpose: Pretty and inexpensive... I don't need a purpose.

 

     These next three novelty yarns are the exception to the rule. They have all the pertinent information on the labels and cost more.

 

Company: Lion Brand Yarns

Line: Fun Fur Prints

Color: Mango - 438, Citrus - 118426, Tropical - 118420 & the Blue one

Yarn Size: 5 - Bulky - Heavy Worsted

Yardage: 57 yds - 52 m
Weight: 1.4 oz - 40 g

Fiber Content: 100% Polyester

Purpose: These are great accent yarns for projects and great for a surprisingly super warm scarf due to the many, many little tendrils.

 

 

Company: Lion Brand Yarns

Line: Fun Fur Stripes

Color: Cotton Candy - 119612

Yarn Size: 5 - Bulky - Heavy Worsted

Yardage: 57 yds - 52 m
Weight: 1.4 oz - 40 g

Fiber Content: 100% Polyester

Purpose: These are great accent yarns for projects and great for a surprisingly super warm scarf due to the many, many little tendrils.

 

 

Company: Lion Brand Yarns

Line: Fun Fur

Color: Silver Fox - 118860, Soft Pink - 104141, White - 148580 & Orange

Yarn Size: 5 - Bulky - Heavy Worsted

Yardage: 64 yds - 58 m
Weight: 1.75 oz - 50 g

Fiber Content: 100% Polyester

Purpose: These are great accent yarns for projects and great for a surprisingly super warm scarf due to the many, many little tendrils.

  

 

 

     Novelty yarns are great fun and add a little or a lot, depending on your taste, of pizzazz to a project or stand all on their own for a project. Now I do want to note a few quirks about some novelty yarns:
 

- Some of the yarns can pull apart.

- There aren't dye lots so you can't guarantee the same exact color in each skein.- The skeins are normally in large bins or boxes, that have been dug through a million times, so you have to go diving to find what you want.

- Since they are in large containers the skeins of yarn are often partially unraveled.

- Labels can also be missing due to being in the large containers.

- You need to know your project to buy the right amount of yarn the first time or buy extra if you don't know exactly what you are going to make.
- The colors can bleed onto your hands and/or knitting needles.
- Cleaning instructions are usually hand wash.
 

      Now I know you are thinking that this is quite a list of quirks, but if you look at all the ones that I have, you will see that it does not deter me one bit. I LOVE novelty yarns.

 

Question of the Day

Have you ever knit with novelty yarns before?

 

Knitting with Pizzazz,

 

Victoria