Caron Cakes Self-Striping Yarn ~ Buttercream ~ 7.1 Oz. Cake By The Each

I bought it only because I needed it because stores were out of stock. Great yarn but this price is just pure greed!! Will never order this yarn from Amazon again

The color shown in the photo has more of the lighter variations of green, with almost yellow to a brighter green to a light green. The yarn I received has none of the lightest shades and a very dark shade of green. Great yarn, but the color I received is not what I wanted.

This is a very nice yarn that works up beautifully. One person did not like the green in this combination of colors, but I think the green is beautiful and makes a nice addition in going to the blues and purple. It is actually a little darker than shown. Also, this is not a big cake (10 oz). Rather this is 7.3 oz so you need to order extra. I think it is a little pricey compared to the big cakes. I love Caron yarn - it is very soft and looks very nice on the finished product. This particular combination really comes out nice when crocheting afghans like the one shown in my pictures.

I started a crochet cardigan pattern that I originally bought 3 skins thinking it'd be enough a few years ago on sale at Micheals. I was 2/3 through the last sleeve when I ran out of yarn. I tried ordering from my local Micheals & when I received it the colors weren't the same. Instead of having the tarnish brown colors it has the purple gray colors. After not finding the right colors at 2 different Micheals, I decided to try to see if this one would work out. The downside is this cost 2x the original amount so I was hesitant but I needed to try so I could hopefully be able to finish this project. This one did end up having the purple grey color that I don't need but this one at least did end up having the tan in it that I needed.I didn't think to take pictures of the skien before I started finishing the project so that's why the pictures aren't of the full skien. I also just removed the purpley-grey that I don't need and just used what I did so that's why part is also separated from the skien in the picture.The skien had the light peachy color, purple-grey, light tan, creamy white, darker peach, light peach, purple-grey, & finally light tan.

When I first saw the Caron Cake yarns, I fell in love with them. The colors were great, blended beautifully. It set me to start making six blankets for Christmas, six grandkids. Three of the blankets are made with double yarn, using the variegated Caron yarn along with a solid Heart color. The three others were just the Caron yarn. The three Caron Cake blankets are my smaller blankets for the baby and toddlers. The issue that I kept running into was that the yarn would be tied together in several places throughout the skein. In a few of the skeins it was what I would think of as normal. Perhaps two or three times if necessary. However I found that several of the skeins were tied together seven or eight times. Some knots were very close together. I am not a fan of having to hide, or trying to hide, a bunch of knots in my blankets. When you work so hard on something for someone you love, you want it to be beautiful. Overall, I love the yarn, it was easy to work with (when my puppy didn’t get ahold of the skein!), and the finished result is beautiful.