Since I have made enough winter hats, I decided to turn the last two Premier Sweet Roll Vivid skeins I have into hexagons. I've reviewed this yarn before now, and I like it very much. I started with this skein in the colorway Primary.
I believe this is the first time I've tried making hexagons from a worsted weight yarn. Interesting side effect from using the Parfait Plush Super Bulky the day before: the Vivid yarn, which has always felt soft to me, seemed not so soft! I got spoiled by working with chenille all day, lol.
Despite my odd softness reaction Vivid is a perfectly good yarn to use for hexagons. I got six out of the skein with a small ball leftover, which I'll save for sewing them together in the future.
Something else I noticed: the Vivid hexagons (one on the right) are almost the same size as those I made from Premier Puzzle yarn (one on the left.) They're so close it's possible I could use both in the same throw or blanket. In the future I might try an experiment stitching together Premier Puzzle hexagons with worsted weight hexagons and see how they work together.
The next skein I used was this one, which came in a surprise box, in the colorway Neon Signs. Interestingly this skein had a label that had been dinged and torn a bit, and taped back onto the skein, which made me wonder if it was a customer return or damaged.
I had no problems at all turning it into hexes. Boy, are these colors neon! Wooo.
Despite the skein appearing as if it were unused I got only five hexes out of it with a small ball leftover, so it was a bit light. Sometimes the factory probably delivers damaged and/or underweight skeins, which after inspection might go into the surprise box bin. Or it might be a return that was slightly used. I absolutely would do that, too, as it recycles perfectly good yarn.
I'll save these eleven hexes and cook up an interesting way to use them in the future.
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