Valley Yarns Haydenville

Bought the Haydenville in a pretty sage green color because I'd literally JUST learned to knit and used up all the stuff that came in the kit I was gifted for Christmas. I wanted to try something nice, and all the videos said to try wool. It was on sale, so I went for it. The Haydenville is SO pleasant on my fingers! With the gifted-kit yarn, I was shea-buttering up my hands between every row, but the Haydenville yarn is absolutely lovely and soft and I haven't needed any hand cream while knitting it. I cast 70 stitches onto the 5mm/8us bamboo needles from the kit to start and tried to be "randomly interesting" for a few rows but it wasn't looking good, so I stopped but didn't undo my work. Instead, I began working a checkerboard pattern alternating 10 knit/10 purl - and after 10 rows, switching to make the checker squares. I don't know what the thing I'm making IS, besides practice - but I'm going to continue knitting until the skein is gone. I'm about 30 rows into the project, and there's still a lot of skein left. The gauge on the label says 5 stitches per inch on US 7 needles. I'm using slightly bigger needles, and without blocking - my WIP has 5 stitches per inch on the row, but 6 stitches per inch in the column. I don't know what my next project is going to be, but I want to find one that'll use more like this Haydenville from Valley Yarns!

I LOVE THE VALLEY YARNS WITH WOOL AND ALPACA. NOT A COTTOM PERSON SO HAVEN'T USED THEM. I FIND THERE YARNS ARE SOFT AND EASY TO WORK WITH.

I really like the Haydenville yarn. It is soft and does not itch. There is a light sheen. My daughter loves the sweater I made with this yarn. I am now making one for myself.

I ran short of yarn for a sweater I was knitting for one of my grandsons. No problem, right? Just order another skein. But I couldn't find a single skein online in the U.S. Love Crafts to the rescue! They had the exact color I needed and I received it in record time. The skein matched perfectly. This yarn is very soft and easy to work with. I used it to knit sweaters for all 3 of my grandsons and they are very pleased with them. What more could I ask for!

Knits up a dream, with a beautiful elasticity, softness and sheen to the yarn. Stitches were well defined and glided off the needle. Downside being too many joins one of ithe balls I was using and yarn is loosely spun so it splits quite easily.