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Peaches & Creme is a 100% 4 ply worsted weight cotton yarn made by Elmore Pisgah which is manufactured in the USA in North Carolina. Though it wasn’t the first n’ Cream cotton yarn to hit the market, it is, in my opinion, the best. I’m not sure if the name for this yarn was inspired by Sugar n’ Cream, though Spinrite’s assertion of being “the Original” seems to imply they were the first. Be that as it may, I love this yarn.

It’s a good sturdy yarn, about the thickness of LSC and most colors are soft. It’s the smoothest of the three, though also not shiny like a mercerized cotton. I have yet to experience a snaggy color though I haven’t tried all of their colors so the possibility exists. Some colors are a but stickier on the hook than others, but not snaggy per se. I have found it’s the least “splitty” yarn, though the hooks I use don’t have a pointed lip so they don’t tend to split yarn much anyhow. I have yet to run into any end runs or defects. The color selection is what gets me. This is the thing, when you make characters, you have to represent them as they are… the Katamari Prince can’t have Lavender pants, Keroro Gunsou can’t be Sage, it’s a reality thing, they need to look like what they actually look like. It’s key. PC has allowed me to make cooler stuff that I was otherwise unable to. The colors are more vibrant (the delft blue actually looks like delft freaking blue and not turquoise like BHC and LSC) and tend to give less of a faded pastellified version of the color you actually wanted look. I also found the colours they represent on their website are truer to the actual yarn color. Though they have a huge selection of ombres, they haven’t done that at the cost of neglecting their offerings of solid colours.

I mainly tried to stick with buying colours that didn’t exist in BHC or LSC because of the expense of buying this yarn. In a finished piece it blends in nicely with LSC and BHC despite being a bit thicker. I haven’t been through enough of this yarn to say whether or not dye lots are fairly consistent.

My Peaches n’ Crème Stash

The main drawback for me, is that it’s nowhere to be found in any stores or Canadian online shops, so the only option I have is to buy straight from the manufacturer. The shipping, which is reasonable but starts at a sizable base price and then adds up slowly, takes away some of the sweetness of their $1.69 US per 2.5 oz ball price, but the way it works, the fewer balls I buy, the more expensive the shipping is. The price on the yarn is great, but the shipping cost is where I get into trouble. If I buy around 60 balls, I am looking at around $36 in shipping, if I buy 10 balls, I am looking at $27 in shipping, so you see what I am getting at, the more bought, the better deal, which means an order is never small. This skews the value aspect a bit, because although the yarn is very well priced, the expense to get it here, combined with the fact that I can’t purchase it locally, becomes an issue. That being said, with the customs and shipping usually my per ball price is around $2.49 which is still less expensive than most LSC I have come across in shops.

Apparently in the states this brand is available in Walmart, and for this I am jealous, but then I remember my socialized health care and I figure I can live with having to order it online. Though I have read that what is available in Walmart is usually just a few dishclothy colours.