I’ve been searching for Superman yarn, and haven’t found much yet. I spent a very long time in Weaving Works on Thursday, and came home with this.

Mainly because I really wanted to use up my gift certificate from April. So I guess I got my pretty sock yarn, eh?

On Saturday, I went to JoAnn’s in search of a fake Christmas tree (yay! I’ve wanted one for years, but it wasn’t until this year that Nate’s dislike of getting wet and cold to buy a tree outweighed his dislike of plastic trees). I ended up getting one at Michael’s instead, but while at JoAnn’s I perused the yarn section and saw some great Superman colors in Microspun. It is soft. It is cheap. And it has a little bit of sheen to it which I like for a Superman blanket.

The reason I’m looking at acrylic yarn is because I don’t want this particular project to fuzz and ball. And quite frankly, I like the way Red Heart looks when it’s knit. It has a very tidy look to it, which will work very well for what I have in mind. So I was thinking about using Red Heart, but I haven’t found a good red, and their signature day-glo red isn’t going to work for me.

Then I saw Microspun. I asked a woman stocking yarn if it would ball, considering how soft it is, and she said that she hated knitting with it because it unravels really bad.

So talk to me about Microspun. Have any of you used it? Does it hold up well? What do you think? I’m wanting to knit a Superman baby blanket, and I’m planning to line it with flannel.

The Interlocking Balloons Scarf, seen above soaking in the washing machine, is done, and I wore it yesterday. It is yummy. It ended up blocking out very nice, which surprised me because I thought maybe I had knit it too tight. I’ll show you a picture when I get a good one.