I took a couple days to test out another of the sport weight silk yarns I got from Darn Good Yarn, and learned quite a bit about working with this beautiful fiber.
The first thing I crocheted with it was a no-pattern pocket for my purse-size hand creams. I have extremely dry skin, especially on my hands, so I'm constantly using hand creams. The little black tops sometimes unscrew and come off while the tube is getting jostled around in my purse, so I thought a button-up pocket would prevent that.
As with the Gumdrop silk yarn Icicle was lovely to work with, and made a pretty pocket for my hand cream.
I can fit two inside! Ha.
I also crocheted the yarn in single crochet stitches in the round to see how it worked with a tighter project. The mug rug for my office desk came out fine, and I had no problem with the yarn, although the stitches in any sport weight yarn are small and hard to see. The smaller the yarn, the more noticeable the increases are, too.
To use up the remainder of the cake I just made a granny square and kept crocheting until I had only a tiny bit left.
I handwashed my items in cold water, and the dye did come out in the water a bit. This is to be expected from a silk yarn. Silk fabrics have always bled when I've hand washed them; it's just the nature of the fiber to shed a little dye. Whatever you make with this fiber should always be hand washed. The dye also lightly stained my hands when I rinsed and squeezed out what I made, so you should wear gloves when hand washing this fiber. Since there was no smell I didn't bother with vinegar, but Darn Good Yarn recommends that and a few other things here.
Some thoughts on the yarn itself: the color is so vibrant and pretty, and I loved the hand, which is soft without being too soft. The texture of silk yarn is like nothing else in the fiber world. It's quite strong for being so thin, and glided on my hook in a very airy, delightful manner. I think the sport weight silk yarns from Darn Good Yarn are exceptionally nice, and highly recommend them.
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