I’d like to start by saying this yarn lives up to its name. It’s soft and lofty and I could snuggle into a pile of it and happily take a nap. (Ah naps. Unrealistic toddler mom life dreams. Haha.) I was skeptical of the yarn when I ordered it. Online it looked like it could be very similar in texture to Lion Brand’s Wool-Ease Aire yarn, which I'll cover another time. However, the weight and fiber content is different. Wool-Ease Aire is a CYC6 super bulky blend of 74% Acrylic, 13% Wool, 13% Polyester while Feels Like A Dream is a CYC5 bulky 100% Nylon. When the yarn arrived I was happy to find I was wrong. Although in...
About The Yarn CYC5 Bulky weight; 98% acrylic, 2% polyester; 185 yds (169m); 170 grams Homespun yarn is one of Lion Brand's classics. I remember it being around when I was learning how to crochet and that was an eternity ago. (Really somewhere around 1995.) I used it for a few blankets (including one I started for a boyfriend, gifted to him unfinished, we broke up, and I finished it and regifted to another boyfriend...) and maybe a scarf or two. There always seemed to be a skein sitting around the house and my whole family (even Dad) knew "Homespun." After those early projects I brushed it aside as a cheap novelty yarn. I guess I went through a yarn snob...
