Wool
Hi All,
Do you any of you knit / crochet the squares with 100% wool? I feel quite bad because I am only using the cheap Acrylic wool, but firstly there is hardly any "proper" wool available and / or secondly you pay a lot of money for a 50g ball.
What are your thoughts?
Gitta
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Permalink Reply by Michelle Babcock on -
I think each of us has to decide what the knitting and crocheting we do for Knit-a-Square means to us.
When I first heard about Knit-A-Square, I thought that I should only use 100% wool because that would reach the children who lived in the worst conditions. As I've been working on squares and hats and vests for KAS, my thoughts have changed a bit. Now I feel like I want to help as many children as I possibly can. Using acrylic means that I can do more on the same budget.
If I was given the choice between spending R50 on wool and R50 on acrylic -- a year ago I would have picked the wool but today I would definitely pick the acrylic. My feelings might change again in a few years, when I (hopefully) have loads more money to spend.
For me, for now, I pick acrylic.
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Permalink Reply by Gitta Seyfert on
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I know what you mean. R50 will get you 3 x 100g balls of acrylic compared to maybe 2 x 50g balls of wool. 300g of acrylic equals 12 crochet squares which is 1/3 of a blanket :)
LOL. ok, acrylic won hands down ;)
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