Yarn Review: Plymouth Yarns Boku

This is sadly going to be my first not so positive yarn review :(  As I mentioned several months ago, I bought a massive quantity of various multi-colored yarns.  Many of these yarns look very similar to each other, but knitting with each is typically a different experience.  So as I get around to making projects with them, I've been posting reviews of my experiences.

I bought two different shades of Boku, "16 Purple, Grey, Magenta" and "17 Purple, Pink, Green".  Both projects I made with this yarn involved striping the two different colorways.  One was the linen-stitch scarf pictured above, the other was this striped cowl.  To be fair, I'm pretty happy with both of these projects (happy enough that I feel good about putting them in my shop).  The colors are very pretty.  While the finished objects are certainly not suitable for someone with a wool sensitivity, they're not overly scratchy.

However working with this yarn was a miserable experience.  It actually caused me physical pain.  I'm usually not sensitive to wool, but after a few hours of this running between my fingers it was driving me crazy.  Also all four balls that I purchased had a lot of nature in them.  When I say nature I mean dirt and various bits of plant matter.  So much plant matter in fact, that I kept having to pull little splinters out of my poor fingers (hence the actual physical pain).  No matter how happy I am with my finished objects, I don't think I can recommend a yarn that gives the knitter splinters :(