Yarn Cotton Blend
Yarn Cotton Blend I'm planning on knitting a baby blanket for my brother's baby. What kind of yarn should I use? We just found out that my brother's girlfriend is having a baby. My grandmother always ...
Yarn Cotton Blend
 I'm planning on knitting a baby blanket for my brother's baby. What kind of yarn should I use? We just found out that my brother's girlfriend is having a baby. My grandmother always crocheted all of the new babies in the family an afghan but she recently passed away so I planned to knit one for my new niece or nephew. I'll obviously be waiting until they find out the sex to actually buy the yarn, but I've been checking out different kinds. I looked at all of the "baby" yarns and they are all polyester or poly-blend. Wouldn't 100% cotton last longer and feel better? And isn't it healthier for the baby? What kind of yarn should I use? I think it's a matter of personal choice. I would go by feel, make sure it's really soft ! That's probably why the poly-blends are recommended. 100 % cotton would be good, but it's stiffer and harder to work with. Also, it shrinks in the wash and believe me a baby blanket will need to get washed ! LOL Don't use 100 % real wool, cause that is really itchy stuff !! ( PS: I have a crocheted afghan (from the polyblend) and it's really nice because the pattern is actually quite ''airy''. There are holes in it that are just big enough for my daughter to stick her fingers through and she really likes bunching it up. Plus it's nice and supple and stretched a bit with use, which just made it better !!! ) |
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Metallic Yarn – a Brief Introduction
The Metallic Yarn Manufacturing Process
Metallic yarns are by and large made from strips of a synthetic film, such as polyester, coated with metallic particles. In one more method, aluminum foil strips are sandwiched amid layers of film. Metallic yarns may also be made by twisting a strip of metal around a natural or man-made core yarn, producing a metal surface. It is made of thin film and supported by nylon or polyester or rayon yarn according to the type of yarn.
Metallic yarns start as rolls of films or laminations 30" or wider. These wide rolls are slit into narrow rolls 2" to 5" wide. These narrow rolls are gang slit across their whole width to micro widths from 1/128" (.0078") and wider and then taken up on plastic spools for shipment to textile mills.
There is a rainbow of colors available from red, blue, green, etc. to gold and silver. Brilliant, reflective colors which add decorative patterns to fabrics.
Metallic Yarn Uses
Metallic yarns are woven, braided, and knit into many fashionable fabrics and trims. For added variety, metallic yarns are twisted with other fibers such as wool, nylon, cotton and synthetic blends to construct yarns which add novelty effects to the end cloth or trim. They create all textiles more eye-catching by adding sparkle.
At one time or another, metallic yarns have been used in just about every variety of textiles. Metallic Yarn is used in manufacturing knitting wears, knit & woven fabrics, embroideries, labels etc. Some end uses have been in automotive fabrics, television front fabrics, bath towels and face cloths, clerical vestments, bathing suits, hosiery, upholstery, hat bands, etc. Also in theatrical clothing, theater back drops, doll clothing, banners and uniforms.
Care of Fabrics with Metallic Yarns
Specialized dry cleaning with perchlorethylene is favored to laundering. Hand laundering with Woolite and cold water is the only suggested laundering method. Never launder with bleach. Fabrics containing metallic yarns should be treated like all synthetic fabrics. Ironing should be at the lowest setting on the iron. If there is no thermostat on the iron, do not use that iron. Do not use steam when ironing metallic yarns.
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