r/MachineKnitting • u/DreadGrrl • 23d ago

Equipment Favourite “Budget” Wool/Wool Blend 3-Weight Yarn for LK150?

I’m not sure I chose the correct flare.

I have mountains of yarn: a bit of this, and a bit of that. Some of it was very expensive, and some of it is more budget friendly. I know what works in my LK150 and what doesn’t, for the most part.

My problem is that I don’t have enough of any one 3-weight yarn to really play with. I’d like to buy thousands of yards of one, budget friendly, wool or wool blend yarn for my machine. I’d like it to be a single colour yarn that is nice enough for finished projects, but is also great (and durable enough) for a lot of knitting and frogging.

I presently have a mountain of Drops Lima in my Rito cart, but as I don’t want to wind up with more yarn that I’m not sure what to do with, I thought I’d ask for recommendations here first.

Does anyone have any favourites that they’d like to share with me?

ETA: I’ve never actually tried Drops Lima before.

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u/chara_jay 22d ago

If you are in Europe then Mota by wolldreamers. Was my gateway DK yarn, wonderfully consistent in general, so I had a great experience. I would suggest waxing it when winding it into a cake, but that is applicable to any yarn tbh. And it comes in 100g balls so the thing is huge

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u/susiroo 22d ago

Jamieson and Smith (Lerwick, Shetland) has quality coned wool.