Today I am putting Bendigo Woollen Mill 8Ply Luxury under the microscope and looking at the good and bad. This is of course just my personal opinion! *This page may contains affiliate links

The hard facts:

Composition: 100% Pure Wool

Contruction: Plied

Weight: 200 grams (7.05 ounces)

Length: 437 yards (400 metres)

Size: 8Ply Dk weight

Range: 36 colours

Colour transition: Solid

My Opinion

For:

In order to have full disclosure I must state that Bendigo Woollen Mill have my patterns on their webpage. They run a brilliant program for local designers and pass on 100% of all pattern sales to the designers. I also have been fortunate to have worked with BWM on numerous occasions, where they have offered me yarn support. The team who run this business have my respect and I find them brilliant to work with.

This is an Australian yarn company and the largest individual manufacturer of quality yarns in Australia.

The name says it all! .

BWM Luxury is simply that Luxury. It is super soft and while I am reviewing the 8ply or Dk today, this does come in 3Ply, 4Ply and 10Ply. This yarn provides great stitch definition and is a quality product. This has a snuggle factor of 10/10 and if using this yarn for items such as blankets, it does have some weight to it. It is perfect for weighted blankets.

It is also a great choice for shawls and hats for those really cold months. The end result from using this yarn is an item with a lovely finish and quality to it. Working with BWM Luxury is a pleasant and pleasing experience.

The 200gram balls are a big drawcard for me as I do design blankets a lot. It is a lot less work and fiddling with yarn ends, than you can get when using 50gram ball of yarn.

Luxury comes in36 shades. If you happen to be on BWM mailing list, they often send out colour swatch cards. This can be a very helpful resource, enabling you to see the yarn colours up close.

.Against:

Now please remember these are my own personal gripes and what bugs me may not bother anyone else!

I am very much a fan of this yarn so I will have to be very nit picky to find something bad to say about it.

Luxury is not a yarn I choose to use all that often. But this has more to do with the climate I live in. Right now it is winter but for me and where I am placed in this huge world, its endless days of sunshine. Winter sees very little rain and is in fact the driest months of the year. Skies are blue and it is seldom that a cloud dares to wander by. Mornings can be slightly cooler, but by 10am any extra layer of clothing is not needed. Therefore the need for a warm pure wool blanket, shawl, hat or anything else is really not a necessity. Then by the time summer does arrive, the thought of using a pure wool yarn really is not at all appealing, as it is just too hot!

Colour selection:

Yes, there are 36 colour choices available, but often the shade is just not quite what I want. Obviously manufacturers such as Bendigo Woollen Mills do have a limit on just what they can produce, but I do wish they would extend the colour selection slightly.

Luxury is so soft that it can be a problem. The urge to spend hours just squishing and admiring it can mean no work gets done! This yarn is almost too nice to use!

Using this yarn may spoil you for any other yarn. If you have heard the term ‘yarn snob’ and never understood the real meaning of it, try some BWM Luxury and you may well become one.

As a designer I don’t insist that pattern testers use BWM for a project simply as I have designed using it. Sometimes this could be ver unrealistic simply due to international postage costs. This is of course out of the control of BWM and comes with living in Australia. It is a long way from pretty much everywhere. So, if you are interested in trying out BWM Luxury and happen to be anywhere other than Australia, you may find postage costs a bit of an issue.

Overall:

Luxury is really worth trying, but do be careful you don’t get addicted to the super soft decadence of it!

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