Universal Yarn Major

A chunky, marled acrylic yarn holds up well to hand washing and the machine alike. Its texture plays beautifully in colorwork and cables. This post covers how washing and blocking change the yarn’s texture. It also covers a few project types worth knitting with it, a hat pattern built around …

Chunky marled yarn makes colorful, warm, and quick-to-knit accessories. This week we’re looking at Universal Yarn Major, a great example of marled yarn. Yesterday’s post covered four practical, free knitting Universal Yarn patterns. Today, I’ve developed a fun design that features a spiral created by textured decreases. This beanie is …

This week we’re looking at a soft, quick-to-knit, squishy yarn called Major, by Universal Yarn. Yesterday, I shared what happened when I washed the yarn by machine and by hand. Today we look at some free knitting patterns. I’m a designer, and usually I can’t turn my brain off when …

This week we continue to look at Major by Universal Yarn, see Major yarn’s characteristics in yesterday’s post. This 100% acrylic yarn can be washed in cool water and dried at a cool setting, but today I weigh in on whether or not it’s a good idea to wash all …

Welcome back! This week we’re looking at the qualities of Major, a soft, bulky yarn by Universal Yarn and its strongest attributes. These should make any knitter excited about casting on with it. Major is a bulky weight yarn that knits up at around 15 stitches to 4″ [10cm]. The …