10-Pack of Yonkey Monkey 500 Grams Yarn - 70% Rayon derived from Bamboo, 30% Cotton - Imported - White 9013

This is a beautiful shiny bamboo silk blend. The colors are vivid and the yarn is well captured in the photos posted in the store, especially the blow out of the 6-ply strands of the yarn. When I ordered the yarn, I looked at the needle gauge and somehow assumed that I was seeing the crochet hook range. So far I prefer using a 3.0 or 3.5 mm hook with this yarn, which puts it in the weight 2 category, rather than DK which is what I had originally intended to purchase. Working in a finer gauge is hardly a complaint.If you really must, it is alright with a 4.0 mm crochet hook, but the stitches have a non opaque structure regardless of stitch used. The yarn is soft yet very resistant to fray. It will untwine which is a challenge if you are a complete beginner, but it is actually a great yarn to use if you are working on your first project at a finer yarn gauge. It is not the yarn to use in your very first project. (If you are a complete beginner, I would recommend a worsted weight yarn or higher - weight 4 and doing an amigurumi project for crochet.). Otherwise, the qualities of the fiber blend (easy care, soft, bright colors), as well as the relative pricing are a lot to love. I will hug the Monkey Plush friend if I ever have the good fortune to meet one in person.

I bought this yarn to use with fingerling yarn for a garment. It was great to work with and I'll buy some more to make another garment with just this yarn... very nice...

I crochet. I do not knit. I know there's a difference in how the yarn is wound that makes it better for one or the other.So I have a love/hate relationship with this yarn.The positives: great value for the money. You get quite a bit of yarn for the price, and each pack comes with coupons. I made a smallish top and used 5 skeins out of 10, so it's more than enough for a project unless you're making something really large. The drape is *gorgeous*. It washes well (cold water in a garment bag). It feels amazing to wear and looks expensive. I'd compare the drape and sheen to Truboo. The colors are deep and beautiful; I've worked with soil, pea green, and cyan, and all are gorgeous.The neutral: the package says worsted weight. It is NOT, on any planet, a worsted weight yarn. It's very similar to a 2 yarn I'm using for another dress. I knew to expect this from pictures and reviews so it's fine but it's worth knowing to adjust your expectations. Fwiw, my favorite 4/worsted is Simply Soft. Favorite 3 is truboo, and this is thinner than truboo, but not by a ton. The lighter colors are thinner. I have the soil color and the pea green color and they're both light so they're thinner; the cyan I'm working with now is a little thicker, which is normal across brands that bolder colors are a little thicker because of the dye.The negative: it's SO SPLITTY. It's not for beginners and there's a learning curve to working with it. I had to adjust the way I hold the yarn to account for the slippiness of some colors. You'll want to leave extra long tails to weave in because of how it splits, and joining with it is a bit tough if you're using a tapestry needle because it wants to spin out and loosen up.All that said, I'll keep buying it. It's an adjustment to use, but it's just so darn pretty and soft and lovely for the price.

Very soft and pretty! It splits a little, but with nice loose stitches it is easy to crochet with it.

Love this yarn. Yes, it is thin but it creates the softest items. The softest i have found so far was the deep purple but this red is a close 2nd.

At first I thought I was going to love this yarn because it is so soft. I've knit and crocheted with other bamboo yarns before so I knew to expect that it might not be the easiest to work with, but I wanted the drape that bamboo provides. Like other bamboo fibers I've used, this has a tendency to split. It is slippery and extra care must be used to ensure stitches don't get dropped because if they do, rows can unravel quickly. This yarn offered nice stitch definition for the intricate pattern that I'm working on. However, I can't recommend it and I fear I'm going to have to rip my progress and start over with a different yarn because this is fuzzing so badly. The lovely stitch definition in the twisted knit ribbing and cables is being lost with the heavy fluff that is starting to cover my work. The amount of yarn for the cost would have been an incredible value is it weren't for this fuzzing. I've never had a bamboo or cotton yarn fuzz like this, making me question the fabric content. It behaves more like a bamboo acrylic blend.

I'm a weaver, not a knitter. The yarn was thin, as other reviewers said, so I doubled up on both warp and weft. The finished product (baby blanket) washed well and was incredibly soft. It drapes beautifully and I really love the feel of it.This yarn was strong enough to hold up to the pressure of the warp, but 2 of the 10 skeins had been pieced together with short ends. There were multiple knots, rendering those skeins nearly useless - knotted yarn, especially a really smooth one like this, comes apart on the loom. And nothing is a bigger disaster in weaving than broken warp threads.I was able to use some of the pieced-together yarn as weft for a pillow I was making for myself; i can tolerate the slubs and bumps of the many knots. But i would never use those for an item I was giving as a gift.Even so, the finished blankets made with the intact skeins were a big hit with babies and new parents alike. I'm ordering more because I love the color, the texture and results from this yarn, and am hoping I get fewer defects.