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SeaStar
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Posted: April 06 2013 at 6:07pm \| IP Logged

for these hats

I knit hats for the local NICU, but the preemies cannot have yarn with wool- just cotton or acrylic blends.

I have been using a lot of Bernat acrylic because I think it's one of the softest acrylics available locally, but I really would rather use a cotton blend.

Right now I am working on making a few pumpkin hats for Halloween in the NICU (so cute when all the little ones have on seasonal hats- cheers up the place). My yarn choices in orange this time of year are a bit, ahem, limited.

My local yarn store had nothing in orange that wasn't a wool blend. I don't have Cotton-Ease available locally- is it a nice blend to work with? Worth ordering on line if I could find a nice shade of orange?

I can get Vanna yarn in orange here, but I'm just not a big fan of that yarn.
All cotton doesn't seem stretchy enough for a hat- though I did make quite a few all cotton bunny hats for Easter.

Ideas?

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Posted: April 06 2013 at 8:17pm \| IP Logged

Melinda, have you looked at Knit Picks Comfy cotton? I hear good things about Billow, as well.

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Posted: April 06 2013 at 8:31pm \| IP Logged

If you don't find what you're looking for in orange in cotton/acrylic, Caron Simply Soft is what the ladies use here for donated items. I don't love an acrylic-only yarn either, but this one has been pretty nice.

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Posted: June 10 2013 at 2:47pm \| IP Logged

Do you have a Hobby Lobby? They have a great cotton yarn that's deliciously soft called "I love this cotton".

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Posted: June 10 2013 at 3:47pm \| IP Logged

You can get that Hobby Lobby cotton yarn online here..

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