It’s time for a close look at Yarnart Flowers! The good and bad. This is of course just my personal opinion! *This page may contains affiliate links

The hard facts:

Composition: 55% Cotton, 45% Acrylic.

Contruction: Soft Twisted

Weight: 250 g (8.8 oz)

Length: 1000 m (1093 yds)

Size: Fingering 4ply

Range: 50 Plus?

Colour transition: Slow gradient

My Opinion

I used Yarnart Flowers for the first time recently and was pleasantly surprised.

I chose colour 271. The outside of this is a soft grey which transitions to soft blue and then all the way to deep blue.

I selected a 3.5mm hook and felt for me this worked well.

I turned this one cake of Yarnart Flowers into a large mandala style wall hanging- Dragonflies for Dee Wall Hanging.

Very little was left from the one cake.

For:

This yarn was very suitable for the project I produced and gave a lovely definition of stitch work.

For me (being an Aussie and living at the bottom end of the world) yarn cost can be a factor as shipping from overseas can cost A LOT!
This is an affordable option and I can’t fault the end look. I produced 3 wall hangings from the same pattern using 3 different yarns. The Yarnart Flowers stood amongst its peers, head held high and at a fraction of the cost. The other yarns used being Scheepjes Whirl and Hobbii Sultan Deluxe. Note: Right shows pictures of all three wall hangings with labels on them, so you can judge.

Similar to other cake yarns, you can work from the centre of the cake or the outside.

My crochet hook is always the first to complain if a yarn is difficult to work with. Not a peep was heard from my trusty 3.5mm hook during the design process. Well in truth the hook did yell at me a few times when I made a silly error, but that doesn’t really count, does it?

This yarn is classified as a Fingering weight. Maybe it is just me but I find the clasification of yarns can be really broad. I look at some yarns and think ‘What trickery is this? So they are trying to tell me this yarn that is almost as thick as my arm, is a dk weight? I think not!”

Yarnart Flowers is thicker than Scheepjes Whirl, but slightly thinner than Hobbii Sultan Deluxe.

I am yet to use this yarn for shawls or blankets but I will get to that one day, if I live long enough. Then I may update this review.

As to the colour range, I am yet to fully discover just how many colours are available I have so far counted 50. I have not, as yet found a site that could give me a complete view of the range. Everyone who stocks this yarn seems to have selected the colours they wish to stock. So it varies from seller to seller.

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

I can’t say I have any real gripes about this yarn other than personal ones.

For me personally it is a bit hit and miss, trying to get the colour cake in the colour required. And no, I will not move to Turkey (where this is manufactured) to achieve ease of shipping and access.

It is just as well that there seems to be a broad range of colours in this yarn, as I really am not a fan of a number of the colour cakes. Way too much use of green for me. But there are plenty of cakes to choose from to try and avoid the dreadful greens.

Overall:

Affordable and pleasant to work with.

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P.S. Yes I did make one of those wall hangings in Turquoise Whirl. It’s not green, It’s Turquoise which is slightly better than green. I made this as a gift and chose the colour to suit!

Click (here) to be taken to the pattern page for Dragonflies For Dee Wall Hanging.

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