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- old red heart colors
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- new colors
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- new caron colors
really, I’m not! I never would have considered myself a yarn snob. I’ve been using up stash yarn and some of it is Red Heart or Caron One Pounders. I had no problem knitting projects out of this the first time, but my hands do not like it lately. I had no problem knitting with the Caron Simply Soft yarns, but my problem arises when I look at the large bag of Red Heart that I purchased this weekend to make my super secret Christmas Elf present. I dreaded touching it, what little I did knit from my stash this time stuck to my hands, dried them out and made me miserable. I argued with myself for days about replacing it.
I made an unscheduled trip to GR yesterday and threw the Red Heart in my car. I decided to check out the local craft stores. Simply Soft was on sale, making it very attractive, I want my gift to be washable. So I began to hunt colors. I wasn’t able to find all the replacement colors that I originally found with Red Heart, but I think I found enough to make it worth the exchange of yarns. The photo on the left is the set I returned, the other two are the new colors. According to Caron’s website, I think there may be two or three more colors I can get. I may hunt the stashes up for sale or trade on Ravelry to discontinued colors. I debated trying to find Lion’s Wool-Ease, but I’d have to order it all online because the stores don’t carry a wide variety. It would be difficult to coordinate colors from online, so I settled on Simply Softs.
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