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Village Yarn Craft Cotton

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Village Yarn Craft Cotton

Village Yarn Craft Cotton is exclusive to Herrschner’s and appears to be one of their value priced generic or store brand yarn offerings. This yarn is a 100% cotton 4 ply worsted weight yarn which is pitched as being medium weight, but it is a very thin medium weight I would equate more with being equivalent to a size 3 crochet cotton thread. The 4 ply are twisted together fairly closely making a very round strand of yarn like a spaghetti noodle, and maintains that round shape in the finished work, giving a more chunky appearance to the fabric and the stitches are more clearly defined, which may or may not be the look you are going for. Worsted weight yarns like BHC and LSC usually flow and flatten where tension and folds occur as the 4 ply splay, flatten or bind together, so it looks less dimensional in a finished stitch than this more cord like yarn.

The yarn is soft enough, a standard non-mercerized cotton yarn or “kitchen cotton” and comes is an acceptable variety of solid colours, including reds, greens and a variety of oranges, making it one of the better colour palettes available (PNC being the main front runner). The main problem however, is that because it is so much thinner and rounder than BHC, PNC, and LSC, it can’t really be used in the same piece with the others without looking somewhat different in texture and possibly distorting the pattern. The thinness and “cord-like” characteristic is my only real grievance with this yarn because it is well priced at $1.69 US ($1.86 CN), can be easily purchased online with reasonable shipping and comes in a good variety of colours, but unfortunately, for me, the cons outweigh the pros and the balls I bought just sit in the bins without seeing any action. I do anticipate busting them out one day for a small piece like a keychain or cellphone strap, but I don’t anticipate buying this yarn again.

Village Yarn Craft Cotton Stash