Today I am putting Sultan Cotton Kings 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% Cotton

Contruction: 4 strand cotton

Weight: 200gms

Length: 800 m (875 yds)

Size: 5ply Sport Weight

Range: At the time of writing this 44 colours available

Colour transition: Slow gradient

My Opinion

For:

This is a very affordable option for a slow colour change yarn and this is a huge tick on that level.

The colour range is on the larger side and has quite a number of the colours I gravitate towards. Those who know me understand that the first thing I would do when selecting a yarn colour to work in, is to immediately throw all the green out. Even doing this leaves a lot of delicious colours to select and work from.

The colour transitions are amazing. When using a yarn that is made up of 4 strands, the manner of changing one strand at a time creates a lovely slow flow of colour transition. If you tend to make larger projects like I do with many of my blankets, the option to cut and swap to another ball is always a plus. I find this will take your project to the next level. The project I road tested this yarn on is a small blanket and I chose to work in the colour Amethyst (06). Purple is always a favourite of mine and at the top of the colour choice list. The colour is just gorgeous.

With the composition of this yarn being 100% cotton, it makes for great shawls, lighter weight blankets etc and is a great yarn to work in for those summer months.

I used my go-to hook for this type of weight yarn, that being my 3.5mm. Hobbii describes this as a sport weight yarn and I don’t see a huge difference in working with this as opposed to working in many other typical gradient yarns that state 4ply or fingering weight. Of course it is always best to gauge check!

.Against:

Now please remember these are my own personal gripes and what bugs me may not bother anyone else! I did promise to be honest with my reviews!

I am not a huge fan of working in 4 strand yarn! While I love the colour transition created by it, I just find it frustrating. And yes, I have tried putting a bead onto the yarn prior to starting in order to hold the wayward strands together and I have to call b*llsh** on that one.

Personally I don’t think it makes a jot of difference and those pesky little strands will pop out and then come back to haunt you a round later when you notice them. I found myself at one point threatening to hurl the blanket I was working on, from the balcony and let the wind take it where it would. A short time out for the project where neither of us dared to speak to the other did calm the situation down and while we may never truly be friends, we did manage to come to a tense understanding of each other (learnt to work together) nearing the end.

I find the cake size of these a bit of a downer for me. Many of the blankets and shawls I make, size and work much better when the cakes offer 1000m. This is of course not a huge issue but still for me a small elephant in the room.

Overall:

I do think I much prefer to spend a little more and work with Hobbii Sultan Deluxe and would love it if the colour range of the Cotton Kings was available in the Deluxe range. While I won’t say I will never use this yarn again, it is not my favourite or go to yarn. I do keep looking lovingly at the gorgeous colour selection and thinking to myself, is it really that bad the 4 strands? I have to then slap myself a few times to resist the urge to order and keep repeating ‘You don’t like 4 stranded yarn’ over and over.

But back to my butterfly blanket that does look superb in my chosen colourway and so who knows! This yarn and I may well never be besties, but I may forget the arguments and harsh words thrown around when using it, and one day be tempted by the gorgeous colourways to try again. I do just drool whenever I look at this incredible purple!

What you do get with this yarn is a lovely finished product with a beautiful colour transition and so for many who don’t find those errant strands annoying, this would be a great affordable option.

Photographs left: I Wish I Were a Butterfly Blanket. Worked using 2 balls of Cotton Kings Sultan in the colour Amethyst (06), cutting and swapping between the balls at each colour change.

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