[NFB-Krafters-Korner] Comparison between Lion Brand Pound of Love and Caron Simply Soft

[Ramona]

Dotty, these are two of my favorite yarns, and your comparison is interesting. Six years is not a bad length of time to wear a sweater. I think you mean 20 and 18 stitches will be 4 inches of finished knitting. The other significant difference I find is that the pound of love tends to stretch over time more than the simply soft, although drying in a fairly hot dryer helps immensely. I just happen to have on a sweater made with pound of love yarn which is almost like new. and wore one yesterday made from simply soft which is newer and beginning to show some wear. I probably the simply soft more, because it is plain blue and goes with almost everything I wear.  

RamonaOn Apr 11, 2022 10:53 AM, Dorothea Martin via NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hello, Yarn Crafters, 
> I thought you might be interested in my comparison experience. In the 
> fall of 2016, I knitted two sweaters with my favorite knitting pattern: 
> Inishturk Sweater and Tam Pattern: 
> https://www.lionbrand.com/products/knitting-pattern-inishturk-sweater-tam-1 
> with one sweater made in Lion Brand Pound of Love and the other in 
> Caron Simply Soft. Both sweaters are white. 
> Now it is six years later and both sweaters have had a good amount of 
> wear. My Pound of Love sweater looks almost new, while my Caron Simply 
> Soft sweater is ready for the trash. Of course, The Caron Simply Soft 
> yarn is made to be--well,soft. It is lighter in weight than the Lion 
> Brand Pound of Love yarn, coming in at 20 knit stitches to the inch, 
> while the Pound of Love has a gauge of 18 stitches to the inch. The 
> Pound of Love is a bit more tightly twisted, giving it a somewhat 
> harder surface, which probably makes it wear better. In any case, I 
> plan to buy more Pound of Love yarn and knit another sweater soon and 
> you know where that other sweater is going to end up. 
> Dotty Martin 
>
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