What is textured yarn? It is made up of a unique kind of yarn with various bumps, loops or curls running throughout it. This unique quality makes the yarn feel nice and interesting to touch, which can turn your knitting or crocheting projects so much better!
There more than a few textured yarns out there for you to play with! A very popular type is Boucle. It is a yarn that has small loops on it, used for when you want to have this fun and fluffy appearance. The other type is a ribbon yarn. It looks like tiny strips and can available in different sizes such as wide or thin. These tiny bumps or nubs that are found on the textured yarns are known as slubs. This is simply gorgeous to knit with and there are so many more styles of textured yarn out there but the above 8 have their own unique textures which bring a different look & feel in your amazing projects.
If you want to create your own boucle or coil yarns, there are a few fun things that you can do while spinning. An idea is to put small lengths of various colored yarns as you knit along. This results in a profusely speckled appearance that is common with this sort of seat. You can also incorporate a technique called "core spinning" as well. “Which puts your yarn on twist around a small strand or string, leaving little puff balls in its wake. Yarn can be textured in so many ways as you spin it, feel free to experiment and try different techniques!
Now that you have your textured yarn ready to go, let's put it to good use! Texture yarn opens up so many options for creativity in your projects. You could, for example& knit or crochet a lovely scarf using various types of heavier yarns to create different textures with each row/section so that the piece is also visually interesting. Or you could create yourself a comfy style of blanket mixing various yarn textures into it to give its uniqueness and feel special. SOME patterns (like a fun fur scarf or bumpy hat–where the bumps/teeth need to be seen/made) call for texture yarn. The creative ideas are really unlimited!
Textured Yarn Makes a Huge Difference in your Crafting Projects! Why would you use it in the first place you say?It makes your projects look so much more cool and fun visually, that is one big advantage. The same scarf knit with a unique bulky yarn becomes more of an art piece rather then just wearable item. Handspun yarn feels as good to the touch as it looks in your finished project. Regular yarn can also sometimes feel scratchy on your skin, but textured yarn is almost always softer and a much nicer thing to put against yourself. Also, fuzzy yarn —— is not the only way to trap warmth! This canopy of all those tiny loops and bumps traps the air, which is what keeps you so toasty warm on a very cool day.
