Lion Brand YarnWool-Ease Thick & Quick Yarn, Soft and Bulky Yarn for Knitting, Crocheting, and Crafting, 1 Skein, Fig

I love this yarn! The color is beautiful. It's soft and easy to work with. It's been my favorite brand to use for knitting hats, scarves and sweaters.

It is nice but totaly darker color. I want to give back

TLDR: Dye colors are off and skein is MUCH shorter than it should be.I’ve been knitting for 13 years, some patterns I’ve gotten very comfortable with. Was working on a scarf I’ve made multiple times before with this exact brand and realized I didn’t have another skein and my local store no longer had a selection in stock. Ordered this hoping it would work out, I immediately noticed that the delivered yarn didn’t match even though it was the same name and number as my other label (not a subtle difference, like 2 shades off) but decided to cut my losses and use it for a purposeful ombré and remember to always buy extra in the future. I could get over the color, but I also noticed the skein was not as plump as my other store bought yarns so I purposely decided to make my knitting pattern shorter so I wouldn’t run out again. My first skein did more than 1/2 of the project so it shouldn’t have been an issue right? Even after skipping two rows and doing a knit bind off, I’m at least ~24-36 inches short than where I normally am. I’ve only ever used 2 skeins for this project and I’ve always had yarn left over in the past (my gauge and tension are spot on). Unfortunately it would take ~2 hours of picking out stitches to get it to a point I could bind off even shorter than it already is, and I’m reluctant to buy another ball for the last two rows knowing I risk it not matching again- especially because there were weird plastic stringy white fibers I kept having to pull off the yarn when I first received it. Save yourself time, go to the store, because you get what you pay for with this. If you’re just using this for a simple one off craft it would be okay, but if you’re a die hard fiber artist and calculate your projects out, this isn’t the yarn for you.

One of my favorite colors from the Lionbrand wool ease thick and quick. I just loved how beautiful my snood turned out with this color.

Crochet project

Not the color in the picture. So much darker.

Product showed up early and was the exact color I was looking for. So excited to see how it turns out.

Great yarn