REVIEWING the Red Heart All In One Granny Square Yarn (and telling you if it's ACTUALLY worth it!)🤔🧶
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- As soon as I saw this yarn I knew we NEEDED to talk about it. So here we are! Today I'll be reviewing the Red Heart All In One Granny Square yarn, and making a sweater for my dog in the process! I hope you enjoy the video, wishing you all the best!!
-Annie
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tags: Yarn review, red heart all in one granny square yarn, granny square yarn review, crochet yarn review
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0:00 Intro
1:20 The details
5:03 The sweater
8:41 Final thoughts
As someone who finds your yarn in every corner of the house, I'm a big supporter of the all in one design! ❤
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Finally someone who is truthful. I've seen too many fails with this yarn to try it. I want to enjoy crochet, not be stressed out while crocheting. I could spend my money on better things. I could see trying to make it work if the yarn was free. But why would you pay to be stressed out?
I think its a genius idea tbh, I figured out to do the last cluster of each row either more loose or tighter helps and started being able to gauge how much yarn is required for what tension pretty quick
Thank you for trying the entire skein. 1st video where the skein was finished for a thorough review.
PassionKnit Kelsie did a really good video using a few full skeins
After watching you, Tony, and another RUclipsr (I forget who 😑), I am even less interested in trying this yarn. I have a difficult time with gauge on a good day, I cannot image what using it would do to my stress level, lol! Thank you for your honest review!
I fiddled with this yarn yesterday and found that the only way to be on par with the color change on the one skein was to crochet the granny square like I usually do, but then on some of the colors I had to change my hooks from a 5.5 to a 6. I definitely agree about the anxiety with running out or having more of a color. Crocheting is supposed to be relaxing! Lol! Also I agree with some of the other comments that the projects are going to be the same, as far as color scheme, who wants that?! I guess it just boils down to personal preference. Thanks for sharing!
I feel like this yarn is a cool idea, but I don’t think I’d enjoy using it in real life. I’m more of a mindless crocheter, and like to crochet while I watch or listen to things, and having to stress that much about tension and whether or not I’m gonna have enough yarn sounds exhausting 😅
P.S. I just discovered your channel and absolutely love it!! Binging your videos is getting me through a bad cold right now. Keep up the good work! 🥰
Same! I often just crochet without a pattern for something to do with my hands. I'd have to pay way too much attention 😂
Your Red Heeler caught my eye, when your vid popped! She's a beauty, and looks so sweet. ACDs are the best!! We have one red, and another that's 1/2 bird dog. Your squares are a lot more uniform than I thought, having to change tension so much. Great your changes worked out! Definitely looks stressful and more than its worth. I like the magic circle, too. 💗
I was very curious until so many people have had issues trying to get it to work right. And this is the first full project I have seen made out of the squares. I don't think I need to try it unless it goes on sale extremely low. Thanks for a true review and not still raving even though it has issues
The problem I see with this yarn…..every granny square blanket/project is going to be the same. Same color variations. I like to be unique in what I make and well this is just a gimmick for me. I would rather weave in ends as I go and be the master of what colors my project is. 😊 Evie you are the bomb for wearing your momma’s creations you look amazing ❤
This is such a good point, I love this perspective! Half the fun of working with granny squares is coming up with different color combinations. I hadn’t considered this before but you’re right!
Exactly.
You could cut the length of one granny square and then flip it so you’re starting from the end you just cut at
@@jenana6882that wouldn’t work because the outer colors are much longer than the inner colors
Exactly. Pre-scripted creativity isn’t for me. Probably satisfying for beginners in particular, which is totally fine.
Thank you for the honest review. Evie is such an adorable little fashionista. Cat being cat has to come photo bomb. Love animals and their antics 🐾♥
Have you tried the Red Heart All In One yarn or do you plan to? Do you think there's anything I forgot to mention? I want to hear your thoughts in the comments! 🥰
I will be trying it. I'm some sort of undiagnosed neurodivergent and while I love to crochet, I have trouble focusing on things like color changes and weaving ends. All my granny squares are made with variegated yarn because of that. I'd rather learn to gauge and frog a bit and fiddle with tension than having to buy all the extra colors and manage it all
I've started watching tons of videos on this yarn because RUclips knows it's a hot topic right now-lol. And as someone who just finished a monochromatic granny square project (that resulted in abandoning a larger granny square project for reasons) I can begin to think of purposes for this yarn that are not just "granny square with no color changes".
I think this yarn would be a great tool to teach about gauge. I'm what I would consider to be an intermediate crocheter but to be quite honest, I never swatch anything and I don't really pay attention to or calculate gauge because I don't do many wearables or projects where I want a super specific size.
Beginners might have an easier time understanding the importance of calculating gauge with this yarn, where the different colors make it clear that when the gauge isn't correct, things don't line up right.
The challenge this yarn provides could be a valuable teaching/learning tool, I do kind of like the idea of learning to control my tension via this yarn.
I'd also love to see it used for something other than granny squares, I think I heard someone somewhere mention colorwork with the yarn would be cool to see. I bet you many people will buy this yarn just for like, kid's crafts or something. I bet it would make interesting pom poms and things too.
I purchased quite a few skeins of this new yarn. I also am a magic ring girl. To make thus yarn fun for me, I use an H/8 5mm hook, I also created a work-around for the extra length of yarn for each color. Therefore, I am still having fun making granny squares. As one of my favorite designers says: Do what works best for you. This is what I have done. I just wish I could have gotten a few skeins of the Lily Pad colorway. Joann’s did not have it and Yarnspirations was sold out of it. So, honestly, I LOVE IT!!!!! On a side note: check out Moogly’s review about this yarn, she has some interesting points, also.
I had a similar experience. The colorways are nice, but... mmm... probably wouldn't use this yarn to make granny squares. Your dog was a good sport! And you are right you chose the right colors for your sweater. 🐕🥞
I bought this yarn ONLY for the colors. My plan is to use it in scrappy projects, to try and pool it or just for ransom pieces. I absolutely dislike granny stitch, so I will never make the granny squares, anyway. I thus won't have to worry about gauge!
I’ve watched a lot of reviews on this. And the first thing I noticed was no one wanted to use the pattern that was provided with it. However, that pattern was worked up with Mikey from the crochet crowd and Hass to be followed. I went and watched Mikey, and even he had trouble with keeping the Yarn ending where it was supposed to. I know that some people were able to hit it right on but others didn’t even come close. I seen people change their hook size like from smaller to way larger but a lot of people wanted to do it their way and unfortunately I don’t think that ishow it works. Would I buy this yarn? Probably not because I don’t want all that headache. You did a good job and I congratulate you on hitting the color ends so good
The fun of a granny square is picking the colors and making it your own. Also, gauge is not a factor as long as your squares match. It seems to me the yarn takes something fun and makes it tiresome. I can weave in as I go, so changing colors is not that big of a deal for me. I'd rather have the freedom of choice.
I'm the opposite, all that stuff that's fun to you is stressful for me. I like the idea of this yarn, as someone neurodivergent, and as a cat owner whose cat is always stealing their skeins of yarn..
I really enjoyed your demonstration thank you will definitely watch you again
Great modeling Evie......
Thanks for the review and I'd love to have the pattern for the doggie sweater. TYSM
I was just scrolling on YT and I’ve seen so much of this yarn! Love the review ❤ PS- first time watching and finding your channel, yarn, heelers, AND ACOTAR in the background I see!?? *Subscribed💕
The stress of getting it to work (and I'm a bit of a perfectionist) would make this not convenient at all. Thank you for testing it for us! Good dog Evie!
I just bought this yarn, the exact same color as you, but I haven't tried it yet. I am a bit nervous, but also grateful for the heads up.
I made the dog sweater in citrus twist, but Moggie is only 10 lbs so I only needed 4 squares. I saw A LOT of color bleed through, especially on the white outer round. I bought 6 skeins because I was going to make the dog and I matching sweaters, but Im taking the others back and just going to make traditional granny squares with corresponding colors for myself.
this yarn is DEFINITELY fiddly. for me, worrying about my ends coming undone is so stressful that frogging and redoing to fix my tension is much more relaxing, but i’d imagine that for most people they’d rather just weave the ends in!
Got a like just for the dog! Sick crochet tho. I’ve been mostly doing hats and amigarumi but this is a great idea…consider I have four dogs and two of them spend life frozen lol.
I wonder if it could also be used for planned pooling projects?
What I usually do in granny squares is that I make a full one to calculate how many I need for the project, then I crochet all of the centers (round 1), then I add the second round to all of them, then the thrird round on all, etc that way I only work with 1 or 2 skeins at a time, that way I'm not carrying all of my yarn colors around the house, this yarn just seems like too much hassle
I'm really only interested in this yarn as a self-striping yarn - I dont have time or patience for the hassle of getting gauge in a granny square to worry about it.
I've only made my first square. And I had a lot of trouble just like you. And I have a near perfect tension on a double crochet stitch. So I was disappointed in that luckily I'm only making 14 squares from my project.
It is unlikely, though, that I will purchase this again for making granny squares. If the colors are pretty, I might do it for some other type of project. Evie was such a cutie in her sweater. I wish my dog would wear them, but he prefers to run around As nature intended.
Evie is the MVP! She's so adorable. I can't wait to make this for my pups!
I recorded a video on this yarn too and I feel your pain. I also splurged and bought it on their website and spent so much time trying to get my gauge right that I could have just made regular granny squares and wove in a few more tails. I am going to try planned pooling with it and see if that is any better.
I just discovered your channel! Love your review. I’m waiting for my yarn to come in the mail. I’m curious to see how it goes. Subscribed!!!
I would lay down my life for Eevee
Thank you so much for doing this review, I have done color pooling so I expect to have to work with this yarn to get it to cone out right, but I still want to try it ty again for this video❤
Omggggg so cute!!!!!! Love it 100%❤❤❤
Is that book of the month in the back??? Lol
I definitely won’t be trying it. I really appreciate the review!
This is the 3rd critique and all three had the same issues. I will use the yarn but not for granny squares. TY❤❤❤
I like this yarn but it took hours to finish 1 square but it usually takes me hours to complete one, it's just it took longer because I had to redo rows or parts of rows and change tension with hook sizes to get it to be perfect like it's 5.5 mm hook size yarn and I used 5.5 mm, 6 mm, 8 mm, and 9 mm hook all in one square to make the rows land perfectly every time
It's nice but might be better as striped yarn instead of granny square yarn in my opinion but I like the challenge
I 100% agree that it’s just too much effort.
If you’re the kind of person that weaving in ends makes you want to kys then by all means, give this yarn a try. But for me, the stress of trying to hit gauge would be too much. Every time I had yarn leftover for a color or the next color started to bleed into the current round, I would have to start completely over and, frankly, I find that to be a massive waste of time.
This yarn is also clearly not for beginners because gauge is so important, but I feel like beginners who are intimidated by color changing and granny squares are going to be heavily drawn to it by its purported ease and convenience.
TLDR, it’s a no from me dog
I’ve been crocheting for years and I’m having the worst time hitting gauge. I can get the first round but the I have too much left (about 2dc worth) from then on. I’ve tried different size hooks, working on my tension, even different square variations. It’s so frustrating. As much as I hate weaving in ends, I think I’ll just stick to multiple yarns bc this is getting too stressful lol
Also a magic ring girlie💕 also I have to make this for my 🐶
Hi. I also bought two skeins of the same colorway Red Heart Granny All in One Square yarn in order to make the same dog sweater for my daughter’s dog, my “puppy grandchild”. He is larger than your sweet Edie. The Yarnspirations pattern only went to Large. What size did you make Edie’s cute sweater? Any advice on how I can make Disco’s in an extra large? I agree the yarn can be fiddly. I had to go up to a 6.5 which works food for me, with some tweaking. Thank you for your video and any advice you can give me, dog sweater wise!
I see ACOTAR in the background!! So fun finding another book and crochet girly online haha!
DID YOU GO TO ASU TOO?! Ah so glad I found you and subscribed!!
My first thought on seeing yarn a few weeks ago was that it was a dumb idea. I choose my colors for a reason and don't want the same color pallet as everyone else. My gauging would be a disaster, I always have to size down my hook. Weaving ends is part of the process, either learn to crochet over your tails or get a good needle.
I seen someone try this on a different channel. The recommended hook didn’t work out for them but they should’ve used a bigger hook.
I would suggest that anyone use this yarn I can’t get the colors to change at the right point, you may need to change your hook size either bigger or smaller.
I've watched a couple videos on this yarn, and all of them pretty much say the same thing (great idea, poor execution, kinda mid yarn) but I still wanna try it for myself 😆
Might pick up a skein if it's on sale, but I definitely don't want to drop a ton of money on it based off what everyone's saying
(Also, I was working on your wisteria cardigan pattern while watching this!)
OMG she’s adorable 😊
I bought 1 skein to test it out and for me it's more trouble than it's worth. I don't even mind weaving tails in. I do, however, like the colors it comes in.
I agree!! There are some great color options, but I think it’s easier to just manually change colors😂
Thank you for sharing this. I did want to ask, if you had or would share a video of how you make your Granny squares that made this yarn (finally) work out/right for you? Thanks again, love your pets! Oh and I had just found your page 🤗
I feel like this yarn probably wasn't made to appeal to granny square enjoyers/ease of use or convenience, but for people who really like to colorpool. like it looks like a yarn that would color pool really easily, but also has the option for doing a different kind of colorpooling project than usual (which is like blankets or scarves)??
I seem to be having the opposite problem as everyone else, I'm following the gauge and pattern to a tea, yet after every 'row' I have several inches of the color left over, Can someone please explain what I'm doing wrong
You should try planned pooling with variegated yarn. I would love to see that.
I tried out the green one that has black in it and oh my gosh. The recommended hook size? I had to go up to a 6.5 for it to work at all, because the recommended 5.5 was way too small. Maintaining gauge? Throw that out the window because I had to crochet looser with the light colors and then super tight with the last two colors which were dark blue and black. I love the resulting granny square, but the pattern they give for making the squares is wonky and the yarn itself requires a LOT of fiddling with and redoing rounds to either use up all of the color before ending to round or to have enough color to finish the round.
Overall: the idea is great, but the execution just needs a lot of work.
Evie, you look marvelous darling❤
woah I’ve been seeing this a lot. I’m new to granny squares but not new to crocheting. I’m shocked they don’t say to use a magic circle. I wonder how many people are actually reading the directions to know to do that??? Also I began as an amigurumi crocheter so I crochet very tight. I think this would be a disaster for me personally.
I have not tried it yet. I hear about a lot of people having a hard time getting gauge. I would not use it for squares unless I didn't care how they came out. I have seen a lot of people making other things with it like hats, scarves, blankets.
Wait is there a tutorial for the hexadog?
Hey I love your videos! I was wondering if you could consider making a mesh top? I think it’ll be so cute! Thank you so much!
Hi, thank you so much!! I would love to do that, I definitely need to soon! Thanks for the idea! 😊
Hit up Joanne’s durning their huge yarn sale and do curbside if you can. It’s around $5.70 this way. I bought so much and love it
If rater buy the regular supper saver yarn and make as many Granny squares as I want and not get frustrated with trying to make the all in ond granny square work right with the tension and the pattern
I plan to buy when I see it on sale, but will not be making granny squares. I saw a youtube video of someone who made afghans and the color stripping was great. It looks like too much work to get the granny square just right. No fun if I have to work that hard.
This is one of those yarns that would be fun to try once, but I definitely would not use it in the long run
We will be seeing this yarn in the 99¢ bins soon
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Totally random but what’s that wall piece that holding your yarn called? It’s so cool
Thank you! It’s just a white peg board form Home Depot, I wanna say it’s only $25! It’s super handy for yarn storage! (:
@@hooksandheelers thanks for responding!
Mandatory like for Eevee given!!
Hahaha you’re the best!
I wish my pup would wear things like that she won't sit still and I can barely put her collar on 😂
Too expensive tbh and i prefer to mix my own colours 😍
So true, plus it’s so fun to make your own color combinations!
My question is, does it have the same “feel” as Red Heart Super Saver yarn? In all honesty, I’m not a fan.
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Totally enjoyed your video. This yarn is not for me. I make grannies to relax and I don’t think this yarn is very relaxing. Too much work. And I’ve never minded adding in the cards. In fact that’s fun park because you never know what you want to add then. Loves your little Edie. She is adorable.
It's like pooling yarn! I have pooled like 2 projects and it's definitely annoying
Yeah I definitely wonder how it would look when it’s not worked in a granny square!
Kiera’s Dollhouse Sweets Crochet 8 days ago showed how this yarn worked up into a hat and a shawl/scarf looked. It was very interesting but definitely “outside the box” for most traditionalist. I was fascinated by the look of it and may give it a go. Way too fiddly for a granny square for me.
This is a definite NO for me. It’s like playing yarn chicken the entire time you’re crocheting. It wasn’t enjoyable for me.☹️
That’s such a good way to put it, it’s exactly like yarn chicken the whole time!! 😂
The $12 price point is a no for me.
Given the exhorbitant price and limited/unattractive colorways, I'd already decided I'd never purchase this yarn. In fact, I've avoided ALL of Yarnspiration's gimmicky yarns (O'Go, Pooling, Pantone, etc.). I rarely purchase any Yarnspiration products since they've gotten rid of/curtailed Paton's Grace, Canadiana, Wool yarns.
It sucks
Gimmick. I don’t recommend it. Stick to traditional way of making granny squares in my opinion. I will complete my granny square blanket with this yarn but will NEVER buy it again.
This yarn is horrible. Don’t get it It is definitely too much work to have to crochet and keep worrying about gauge, tension and changing hooks. I wish I didn’t waist my money on it
you complain a lot
Thanks for the review. If a product for convenience isn’t easy to work with what’s the point? Don’t think it’s for me 🧶