Caron Simply Soft Paints Yarn - 5oz Rainbow Bright - Medium 🌈 Worsted Gauge - 100% Acrylic - Machine Wash & Dry - Buy Now! Review

I bought this yarn online to repair a vintage throw crocheted by my colleague's mother-in-law in 1974. The original yarn was wool, not acrylic, but the colors matched almost exactly. I really enjoy working with Caron Simply Soft. great colors and beautiful yarn shine.

My son got this for his school scarf art project. They used straw to weave a shawl. The colors in the yarn changed so quickly that she didn't actually create a whole row of the same color before switching, so it wasn't striped at all, more like a patch in a single skein the width of a shawl. I was expecting a major fade/ombre patch change. But it was still cheap and he was still happy with the bright colors.

I've been using yarn for years (including a lot of Caron) and recently I've been trying to make a very complicated knit sweater (kids sweater) and more than half of it, I don't have ONE, but knit TWO knots by 5 rows from each other (see photo)! I can't give this to a child because I can't hide it right on the edge, but I can use it on one of my dolls. Why were there so many tie knots? I have half a skein left (and I need to finish the top of the sweater and the sleeve. I sincerely hope I don't…

I'm using this yarn to crochet a blanket and I'm not happy with the quality. I prefer crocheting to knitting because it's so much faster, but it makes the yarns so loosely held together I often end up with a thread or two on my needle and have to keep repeating the stitch to include all of the thread or trying to cover up missing pieces. I've included a few example photos. Makes the project tedious. I don't have this one Problem with other yarns I use. It's hard to "hit the zone" when I have to