Has anyone used South West Trading Company’s Phoenix? I’m looking to get the Chocolate color for a shirt. My LYS doesn’t have any, so I don’t know what it feels like.
They did have Plymouth’s Royal Bamboo, and it was soooooooo soft.
I don’t know which one to use. I’ve thought about purchasing one ball of each in the color I want so I can compare them, but I’m on a restricted budget right now, plus I don’t want to have just a ball of some gloriously soft yarn laying around.
So, before I shell out for Phoenix, I thought I’d ask you all if you’d ever used it, and what’s it like? Even better if you’ve used Plymouth’s Bamboo to tell me which is softer.
The Royal Bamboo is cheaper?! Where?! I love this bamboo and I thought the prices were about the same because you have more yardage with the Phoenix yarn than with Royal’s bamboo.
Will you share wher you found it cheaper…please, please?!
There’s a store on ebay that sells it for $5.50 a ball. Link to search
At my LYS I think it was $6.50 or $7.50.
Other than that I haven’t been able to find anywhere else to order it online. I asked the ebay store if they plan on getting the color I want in. Waiting to hear back from them.
Either way, even if I have to have my LYS order the color, it’s still cheaper than the $12-something for Phoenix on yarnmarket.
Though I’ve not yet knit with it, I did purchase a ball of the Phoenix at a little shop in Pagosa Springs, CO whil we were on vacation this summer. They had a skinny scarf made up on display, which was so pretty, and unbelievably soft.
Though the yarn sort of resembles a skinny shoelace, it was really lovely made into the scarf.
Plymouth royal bamboo is just Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm its soooo soft and sooo lovely to knit with. The ONLY drawback is this, its extremely slippery so don’t use it with options needles or metal needles unless you are a very confident knitter. I kept losing stitches and found it very hard to knit with on slick needles. The denise set however is almost made for this yarn. It is SOOO yummylicious. I wish I had some time to knit I have half of Cherry Bomb done from BGK - all I need to do now is make the back!
I’ll be using my Denises. The only Options I have are 2 and 4.
I do love them though. They’re almost enough to convert me to metal needles!
To be honest KK, I liked the washed out colors a little more. I didn’t really want the bright sheen that the Bamboo seems to have. I just like “blah” sometimes I guess. :shrug: