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I'll trot out my quarterly warning that if you're buying from Walmart (and sometimes Amazon gets this too) you are buying a different product than other retailers stock, even when the brand, product, and lot names/numbers match. I haven't bought from Hobby Lobby in years, but Michaels and Joanne (at least prior to pandemic) had fairly consistent stock in my experience.
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Mad Hamish posted:Hello, I would just like to brag that on the weekend I completed my third pair of socks and the first pair I felt is actually fit to wear. It took me about two weeks per sock but I'm incredibly happy with them! Those are pretty cool! Curious what yarn and pattern you used.
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effika posted:Nice socks! Now that you know the joy of hand knit socks, I bet you'll be making tons! I make a point to do a pair a year, minimum. I was like "who's this Kristin Belle person" until I got to the page. I feel like Silver's Sock Classes are a rite of passage at this point.
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left_unattended posted:Seems to depend on how it's been treated. I think what you're looking for is mercerised cotton, it's usually shinier and less rough. I wouldn't call it soft exactly, but it's much nicer against the skin. Seconding all this. There's also weaving thread, which tends to be very light lace weight to fingering weight. I hate cotton and other plant fibers for knitting bc they have no elasticity while I'm working it, and no memory in the garment, but IDK if any of the blends solve some of those problems.
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IME it depends a lot on where you buy it. I've consistently gotten softer lots at Joanne, iirc, but nowhere else. It definitely will felt, though, it's not superwash. It's worked up softer for me than it feels in the skein too, but I also don't wear it direct on skin. It's a little too itchy for a hat for me.
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