I HATE GGH KID SOFT (but maybe you'll like it?)
Like many of you, I'm sure, I'm very taken by the designs in Rebecca magazine. Last year I bought the winter issue and was going to knit a wrap using GGH Kid Soft mohair. I bought all the yarn and started knitting the pattern. It was a fisherman's rib stitch, which was really hard to get going. I had major problems working with the yarn because it would stick to itself whenever I needed to rip it out. I wasted a lot of yarn getting started, and then I decided that I just couldn't take it anymore. I went back to the yarn store and bought some Rowan Kid Classic, which is much easier to work with and a slightly heavier gauge. I knit this wrap using the Rowan yarn and it went much better. Until I left the whole project on the bus (when I was almost finished) and thought I had lost it forever. I got it back a week later after calling the Tri-Met lost and found offices daily, but that's not really the point of this story. The point of this story is that I HATE GGH Kid Soft. It's very hard to work with and impossible to rip out.
So the other day I was downtown visiting the yarn store by my office, and thinking I would purchase some Rowan Kid Classic mohair with which to knit the Jilly Scarf. Unfortunately there are no colors I like in Rowan Kid Classic right now, so I started looking at the GGH Kid Soft mohair and found some colors I do like. I somehow talked myself into buying several balls of this unknittable yarn at great expense ($11.75 each). I came home and started the scarf, and then realized I would need at least another ball of each color. So I went to my other local yarn store and bought three more balls (at $12.50 each!). Then I came home and started working on the Jilly scarf, doubling the yarn as the pattern calls for, and I hated it. I hate working with the yarn and I hate how it knits up. I'm so depressed. I'm drowning in yarn buyer's remorse. Why didn't I learn my lesson about this yarn last winter? Why? And now I can only return two of the balls, because the rest I started knitting with (on account of the doubling it up).
Does anyone want to trade for some GGH Kid Soft mohair in lime, ecru, pink and orange?

1 Comments:
I've been wanting to make that wrap for the longest time. If Kid Classic works, even better (cheaper). Do you have pics?
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