Gotta love it. I found a pattern for a nice, boxy, cable-y sweater a few weeks ago, and started hunting for The Perfect Yarn [tm] for it… You know how these things go. The pattern calls for Lamb’s Pride bulky, which is a perfectly nice yarn. And reasonably cheap as these things go. But no. I haaaaad to look around and see if I could find something ‘better’. HA!

Next thing I know a skein of lovely stormy grey Rowan Polar had jumped into my basket, just begging to be swatched so it could demonstrate its perfection for me.

Now, if you haven’t had any personal experience with Polar, it’s the kind of soft you just want to get naked and roll around on. Seriously.

So I swatched both of them. The Lamb’s Pride was fine, as expected. The Polar was absolutely heavenly. Buuuutttt…….

It fuzzes. And pills. Something fierce. DAMMIT! Alas, I will have to spend $80 less on the sweater and knit it with the Lamb’s Pride. One of the rare moments when the vastly less expensive yarn turns out to be the vastly better choice for the project. Gotta love that.

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