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This critique is NOT directed at Jimmy Beans but at Cascade. I chose this yarn based on gauge, natural fibers, color options and positive reviews. My project was a blue and white reversible baby jacket that I could knit on my Passap, all stockinette stitch. Machine knitters know that fingering weight, smooth yarns have to be flawless for stockinette stitch. My order consisted of Navy & White. Thankfully before winding I noticed white inclusions in the Navy skeins and exchanged them for the lighter Storm Blue hoping for the best. I should have been able to finish my project with 2 skeins each, but needed 3 of each color because of unsightly white silk slubs in the Storm Blue and an abundance of delicate dark blue fibers in one skein of the white yarn, some of which I was able to pull out with tweezers. Tired of using magnifying glass and tweezers I washed one badly affected knitted section, but the blue fibers bleed into the white. In my frustration I first used BIZ and then bleach and of course ruined the piece and threw it away. One white skein also had some off-white streaks which had scattered stitches looking a little dirty, but they were not too horrible. Too late did I discover that the yarn is now produced in China and I have to believe that the many positive reviews have been for this yarn when still produced somewhere else. In fairness I need to add that the yarn was pleasant to wind, no knots, but after I became aware of the heavier silk slubs I wound it very slowly and found enough sections that I needed to cut out, again a big negative for machine knitting. The jacket is now finished, but the joy of making it was destroyed and the costs unnecessarily high. I will be mailing one useless hood section with slubs to Jimmy Beans for their review and hope it will trigger a thorough inspection of this quality if all new shipments were produced in China.
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ThereseRA
on Sep 16, 2019
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