Caron Simply Soft Brites Yarn, 6 oz, Grape, 1 Ball

This is what I made using ti's yarn, it is a beautiful shade of purple and it is a very nice soft yarn to work with

Caron Simply Soft (CSS) in Grape colorway is a nice bright yarn that pairs brilliantly with the Iris colorway, which is a very bright darker purple. They provide very good light/dark contrast for each other and work well with White as a complementary neutral. CSS is thinner than worsted but thicker than sport weight yarn. For knitting it is absolutely delightful, but for crochet it takes some finesse. The yarn has no elasticity at all, so I find that I have to use multiple hook sizes depending on the stitch I am making - sometimes two hooks in a single stitch - to maintain consistent tension appearance and avoid large holes at the tops of stitches. The direction of the twist is ideal for knitting, so the 4 strands frequently untwist as I am crocheting and I have to take care not to split them or accidentally catch my hook on just 1. It can get properly tangled, but it's easy to untangle because it has a very "slippy" kind of texture; a quality which requires that every stitch be worked through at least two loops to avoid the final fabric developing huge holes and tight knots at the top of your stitches, so I have adjusted my procedure for when a pattern calls for FLO or BLO. Your finished fabric will feel nice almost no matter what you do with it, but you will need to adjust your hook size if you are making stitches with largely varying sizes becausd you cannot adjust enough just by holding the yarn tighter (trust me on this one, save your hands the pain.) Overall I still really like CSS, and have none of these problems at all when knitting with it, but I just don't recommend it for absolute beginner crocheters. It can definitely be problematic to work with if you are not prepared to face the challenges it presents. 10/10 drape quality for this stuff though. Imitates silk blend yarns I have used pretty well.

This is one of my favorite yarns to knit with. It's smooth and silky looking and there is a great variety of colors. They yarn works up well and so knitted items look great when finished. I find it harder to crochet with though, Maybe it's just me or not the right crochet hook but I have a bit of trouble with it splitting if I am not careful and it slows my crochet speed down . Anyway It works up into a beautiful finished project. When shops were closed it was wonderful to be able to buy this yarn at Amazon.

I ran out of yarn in a project, specifically this grape color. I started this project over two years ago. I went to Joanns and they didn’t have this color at all, so I took a chance and ordered through Amazon and not only got it the next day (and with free delivery) the color was an exact match. I thought that since they were made in different batches that there might have been slightly off color but there was no difference in the shade I ordered versus the one I had.

I ordered the wrong color for the project I was working on but this is still one of my favorite acrylic yarns. This particular color is nice a bright purple. The yarn really is soft and washes up nicely. I did find it stretches a bit though after washing when knit, especially lengthwise. The sweater I knit for my daughter fit perfectly after knitting, but it came out a few inches longer after washing. I've used it in knit and crochet projects and it is easy to work with for either craft.