Sirdar Alpine, Luxe Faux Fur Yarn, Seal (402), 50g

This yarn is absolutely beautiful! It’s super soft, super fluffy and just an all round gorgeous yarn.If you’re not used to working with fluffy yarn you might find it a bit difficult due to not being able to see the actual stitches, you more so need to feel the stitches.I’ve tried it out and I can work it up no problems! Will definitely order again

Bought this to make a teddy bear - and it’s worked out well. Took me a while to get used to knitting with it - it’s so fluffy you can’t really see the individual stitches on the needle. And I found it impossible to correct if I dropped a stitch, so had to undo and start again a couple of times. However, the finished effect is lovely - so soft and it doesn’t even look like knitting once finished. Overall, very pleased.

This yarn is lovely. Really soft, easy to use (even for beginners). Although it is not a lot of it.Started making a scarf and will need 3x yarn to finish it.Would deffinetly recommend though. Might be pricy (compared to normal yarn) but deffinetly worth it for the quality.

Needed wool to knot grandson teddy. Colour and wool as expected.

I used the Sirdar pattern 8282 for their Teddy Bear coat which was recommended for that yarn and the yarn requirements were accurate. As you can see from the finished result, it produced a very nice effect. I chose a Chinese style frog fastening to finish it off with, instead of the press fasteners indicated in the pattern. My only criticism is that some of the colour came out on my hands as I was knitting, but I did choose the Panther colour and my hands got very sweaty because of the hot weather. My other criticism is that I couldn't always find the end of the yarn when starting a new ball and there were a number of unexpected knots in the yarn as I was knitting!

The positives far outweigh the negatives, and I'll definitely buy this wool again.For a scarf, I'd recommend 15-20 stitches, 10mm needles and 3 balls of wool. I had seen 30 stitches recommended, but after the first ball I ended up with a square and it wasn't going to be long enough for a scarf, so I restarted with 16 stitches and that's going well.Positives:Very very soft. I'm knitting a scarf as a gift and it feels so nice on my hands while knitting. I stopped knitting a few years ago as I didn't like the almost scraping feel of cheap yarn on my hands, but that doesn't happen with this yarn. As there is a lot of fluff, it doesn't matter that my stitches aren't completely even, as it's hidden under the fluff.Negatives:Sometimes a little of the fluff comes off. It's a little hard to see where the yarn is under the extra fluff so it's easy to miss stitches by accident. There are a few small knots in the yarn too, one came undone halfway through the next row so it was difficult to do it back up.

A little harder to work with than the ordinary Dk yarn that I’m used to but I loved the different effect it gave. I made a crochet alpaca and it turned out so cute and fluffy, an effect you can’t get from ordinary yarn. Well worth buying if it’s what you need for your project.

I've bought this yarn lots of times in the past, in this colour and other colours, and it's usually silky soft and really good quality. I only needed 1 skein to finish a project I'd started a while ago, and as I was just using plain black, I didn't think it would matter that this last skein would be from a different batch and have a different batch number from the earlier skeins I'd used, but this one is not good. It looks and feels old. Have you ever had a plush cuddly toy that was lovely and soft to begin with, then after a while it's fur gets a bit dusty and dull and loses it's softness a bit because its been left out? This is what this skein of yarn looks and feels like. I'm going to have to wait a bit to reorder, then hopefully I'll receive a skein from a new batch. I returned this one.