Crafts

I used to be a avid knitter years ago when we lived in Alaska. There weren't many yarn stores up there in those days. I purchased all my yarn by mail. The last time I knit was about 15 years ago, made my grandson a sweater. A few years back, I was on a kick of felting old wool sweaters and making patchwork vests from the felted wool. I wanted to get a kind of crazy quilt look with embroidery on the vests, so I bought yarn at Micheals and Hobby lobby to use for the embroidery work. The yarn sold in these store is mostly acrylic, not wool and much of it is of inferior quality, it was okay for what I was doing..

I think if you are going to take the time to hand knit a sweater, you want to use high quality materials. Glad to know about the yarn sites. if decide to take up knitting again.