Boucle Yarn, Never Again

[varianbetweenstars]

Years ago, I bought some boucle style yarn because it was on sale (I was very new to knitting.) Over the weekend, I tried to start a blanket out of it and, well, I realized what a mistake that was.

At first I liked the warm, drape-y texture. But then knitting two stitches together was a *nightmare*, and the pattern I picked required picking up stitches, and I couldn't see the stitch I was supposed to be picking up. Then I tried to bind off, and it's like the bind off *shrank* as I did it.

Overall, 2/10, would not recommend.

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[xylohypha]

I knitted a hooded scarf sort of thing out of boucle type yarn a couple years ago. The pattern I worked up for it was pretty simple: a regular go-around-the-neck-twice long scarf, with some short row stuff to shape it to go over my head nicely. As I recall it, I used a double seed stitch for it, with an inch or so of ribbing at the edges. Didn't have much trouble actually working with the yarn, probably because the pattern (such as it was) was so simple. In the end the seed stitch wasn't really visible as such, and just gave it a little texture.

But it's warm and comfortable and I'm still happy with it when the weather's cold and blustery and I'm on my morning walk.