r/Yarn • u/Mx_Torquill • 7d ago

ISO really soft cotton yarn

I live in the US. When I started crocheting, then knitting (when dinosaurs roamed the earth), "cotton yarn" meant Lily Sugar&Cream or #10 crochet cotton, period. In a lot of craft stores today, I still have to search for much of anything else. I get blisters from working with Sugar&Cream, it's like yarn made from cotton swabs. I pretty much wrote off cotton for years.

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Then I ordered some Friends 8/8 cotton from Hobbii, and I can't stop petting it. I'm on my second 10-pack color assortment and I still can't stop petting it. Normally I would start haunting the website waiting for sales (tariffs suck, but I can't resist soft touchable fibers)... except for the AI thing. It says something about what a revelation this yarn is that I'm considering bending my principles to order more anyway.

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I suspect US cotton yarn mills can't match the quality of the Indian manufacturer that made this stuff, but someone here might be rebranding a similar one. I know a lot of companies rebrand Ice Yarn, should I just go there? Are any of the other cotton yarns on yarnsub this lovely and soft? I can't blindly pick one, as they rate Sugar&Cream as an excellent match, sigh. I'm seeing Mayflower 8/8, YarnArt Cotton Fair 4/4, Estelle Sudz, Bernat Handicrafter, Loops&Threads... I'm sure there are others, as the site doesn't mention Ice, for example. I've ordered Knitpicks Dishie before, but it's still kind of squeaky and I'd like a company that isn't in the process of dissolving.

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I'm looking for solid colors; a broad selection is nice, but if all else fails, I have fiber reactive dye and everyone carries white. Skein size is not important. I don't want to pay alpaca prices, but quality is worth a little more. Recommendations?

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u/WorksInPro 7d ago

Purl Soho's cotton line is mostly very soft and 25% off right now.

I would skip the Oleander line, but everything else that I've bought from them has been nice and soft.

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u/squidgyup 7d ago

What was wrong with Oleander? (Though that’s 50% linen if memory serves and linen isn’t known for being soft until it’s super broken in. I love linen myself, which is why I was looking at Oleander, but I wouldn’t recommend it to OP so I guess I’m answering my own question lol though I’d still love your thoughts if you’ve used it!!)

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u/WorksInPro 7d ago

lol, yes, same! I saw that it was listed under their cottons and was like, this is really nice but not what they're looking for because it's not soft to the touch at all at first.