10-Pack of Yonkey Monkey 500 Grams Yarn - 70% Rayon derived from Bamboo, 30% Cotton - Orange 9020

This is a beautiful shiny bamboo silk blend. The colors are vivid and the yarn is well captured in the photos posted in the store, especially the blow out of the 6-ply strands of the yarn. When I ordered the yarn, I looked at the needle gauge and somehow assumed that I was seeing the crochet hook range. So far I prefer using a 3.0 or 3.5 mm hook with this yarn, which puts it in the weight 2 category, rather than DK which is what I had originally intended to purchase. Working in a finer gauge is hardly a complaint.If you really must, it is alright with a 4.0 mm crochet hook, but the stitches have a non opaque structure regardless of stitch used. The yarn is soft yet very resistant to fray. It will untwine which is a challenge if you are a complete beginner, but it is actually a great yarn to use if you are working on your first project at a finer yarn gauge. It is not the yarn to use in your very first project. (If you are a complete beginner, I would recommend a worsted weight yarn or higher - weight 4 and doing an amigurumi project for crochet.). Otherwise, the qualities of the fiber blend (easy care, soft, bright colors), as well as the relative pricing are a lot to love. I will hug the Monkey Plush friend if I ever have the good fortune to meet one in person.

Its a lot thinner then I thought it would be, and it can get stringy at times. As a beginner it was a little difficult to get the hang of, however after the learning curve I am really enjoying it and while i don’t think Ill run out any time soon because there is SO MUCH (yay!) Id definitely buy it again and in more colors!

This 10-Pack Yonkey Monkey Skein Tencel Yarn - 70% Bamboo, 30% Cotton feels amazing to my hand but I find it difficult to knit with such fine yarn. I'm going back to chunkier yarn until I am a stronger knitter.

This yarn is very soft. Has a slight shimmer. But it’s very thin, as in fingering weight, almost lace weight. It consists of fine threads running together that are easy to splice when knitting/crocheting with it. I do not recommend for a beginner. The colors are nice but the wt limits its use, unless doubled with a heavier thread/ yarn. But then you lose the feel of the yarn. So buy at your own risk and for fine light weight work only

Works very well on a metal bed knitting machine. Tension 5 Standard machine. Although you have to wind each skein in a cake/cone, its value and quality are worth it. Very soft, good sheen. Perfect for summer or baby items. We make machine knit summer sleeveless tops/tanks with this. Excellent value for the money!

I love this yarn. I have used it in several of my weaving designs. It produces extra soft fabric with a hint of high end. This is my second purchase of this yarn and am just waiting for the green to arrive. I highly recommend this yarn and will be back for more. Great value for your money! ✌️🙂🧶

I have used bamboo/cotton yarn for years for baby blankets and even forr adult blankets.I bought 10 different colors this time. I like that they come 10 skeins per package.Most of the skeins are one complete run with no splices but the first skein I used of the dark blue had 5 splices! So far none of the others have had more than 1 splice. That same skeln also had a glob of yarn that was a total mess and had to be cut out making another splice. However, none of the other skeins I have used so far are like that. I've used 6 skein each of 4 colors with only that single skein having a problem.Another thing I noticed I'd that it seems the yarn is measured more by weight than length because the darker the color, the shorter the length. I always roll the yarn up into a ball, using a lotion bottle to roll it onto and the OCD in me I always count the number for times I go around the bottle.The range is between 600 and 700 times around. The white has 700 and the dark blue 600. The other colors with less dye were in-between.Anyway, I like the yarn because it's made from renewable sources and no plastic except in the packaging. Bamboo is antimicrobial so these blankets don't get smelly when used for babies. They wash and wear easily. If I knew how to knit clothes for babies I certainly would used this yarn.I've used bamboo yarn for close to 15 years. It's the only yarn I use and I've purchased from this company (via Amazon) for about 5 years or so.The cost is manageable but it's gone up almost double from when I bought (from other vendors) on eBay and had to wait a month for it to be shipped.If the keep jacking up the price, I will definitely go back to ordering from China and waiting a long time for delivery.So, for now I will continue to buy from this company but not if they jack up the price!!!

I wouldn't have such an issue with this yarn if the description wasn't so misleading. I've worked with bamboo+cotton yarn before... this ain't it.Since I had my doubts even before ordering, when it arrived I used the simple but effective burn test and compared it to a few other yarns I have. Snipping off a small piece from each, I held them to a match for 3 seconds each and beheld the results.My 100% acrylic yarns (remember, acrylic is just plastic) curled and melted, while my 100% cotton ones, being a non-plastic fiber, burned and turned to ash as they should. I then took a 51/49 blend of cotton and (rayon; refers to manufacturing process)bamboo, which also burned as it should. Burned a piece of this Monkey yarn and it didn't turn to ash; rather, it curled up as acrylic would. Tried it a few more times just to be thorough with the same results. If you're wondering, the higher % of bamboo (70 vs 49) still shouldn't cause it to behave like plastic.An aside, some "bamboo" yarns are rayon from bamboo, where "rayon" refers to the manufacturing process, and can actually be from ANY plant fiber(cellulose)... still doesn't result in melting when burned... Nor does lyocell (another form of rayon, and lyocell is lit just tencel by another name), as far as I'm aware.I'm unsure of the actual composition of this yarn, but I suspect it's mostly (if not entirely) plastic. Again, not normally a problem... if that's what you're going for, but this was advertised as a BAMBOO+COTTON BLEND. False advertising ain't cool, chief. I'll use this for something but I won't ever buy it again. Bamboozled indeed.

Easy to work with and comfy. I made this crop sweater (see picture) with just over 7 skiens.

I bought this with great expectations for a blanket I'm knitting (or trying to) for my grandson...Yay... finally it came.... very quickly, took it out .......andOh no.... this is not wool, it's thread for needle point....It does not, in any way represent wool...I tried putting 2 threads together, thinking this would be do able....I tried putting 3 threads together...... noI finally put 4 together and it came close to a baby knit wool...so back it goes....don't you just hate it when the product is no where remotely close to what they tell you it is....On top of that, it splits with every stitch you try to take...I'm a very experienced knitter and it took me 45 min to cast on 20 stitches.....it splits and freys.... perfect for embroidery work....but not knitting or crocheting....

This is the best soft bamboo cotton, easy to work with. If you’re looking for a very soft cotton, go for it, you won’t be disappointed.

I bought this in 3 shades, black, camel, & cowboy blue. The 3 colors were all true to the images I saw on my screen. It's lovely soft yarn. As mentioned by many others it is not #4 worsted weight, but more like #2 sport weight. If you double it up you'd be about a #4. As far as splittiness goes, if you have crocheted with a Scheepjes Whirl then you'd be fine using this. It's pretty much at that level of splittiness. I wouldn't recommend it for newbies, but for any fairly experienced crocheter it would be fine. It's very soft and not overly shiny. It's more of a light sheen than a real shine. I dislike shiny yarn but I'm happy with this. Yarn is pretty expensive these days and I think for post Covid this is a very good deal.