Knit Picks Hawthorne Speckle Hand Paint Weight Sock Yarn (Confetti Speckle)

Arrived today. feels and looks lovely.

Lovely yarn, good colours. This yarn arrived promptly thank you.

I’m thinking of buying all the different colors of this speckled yarn! It was an absolute pleasure to work with! The speckles were consistent throughout the hank, the yarn was soft and had no knots, it was very easy to knit to a tight gauge for a pair of socks, and there was plenty of yardage for a women’s size 10 pair of socks with 64 stitch circumference and a 6 inch leg. I had 13 grams of yarn left that I will be saving for another project.

I needed two skeins for my project. I got two different dye lot numbers. I ordered again with the same results. Anyone that has knitted knows you can’t mix dye lots for a project, the colors will be different.

First, I gave it 4 stars because it's a lovely, soft yarn to work with but there are a few things that are a bit of a problem. I bought this color, Macadam, and the color Skyline thinking that they would contrast but as you can see in the picture they are practically the same. Macadam has some black in it but the green tones match Skyline. In the Amazon picture Skyline looks much lighter and Macadam looks much darker. When it arrived it smelled heavily of dye and after knitting 1/2 the skein of Skyline and the whole skein of Macadam (I bought 2 skeins) my bamboo knitting needles are stained green. I haven't wet blocked it yet so I can't confirm that it will run but I think it's pretty likely. Again, I didn't return it because it is very nice yarn I just thought the above is good info to know.