estakoCake 100% Acrylic Multicolor Yarn, DK - Light Worsted #3 for Crochet and Knitting 3.5 Oz (100g) / 394 Yrds (360m) (Color - 312)

I used this acrylic yarn to crochet a beanie! The color gradient is awesome and it is super soft!

solid yarn, just wish the colors blended into each other more instead of a harsh line from color to color. also strangely there are vastly different amounts of each color on the cake. like the orange section was massive while the purple and light green sections were super small comparatively.

I love these cakes of yarn with multiple color changes in vivid shades, and couldn't wait to try out the 323 option! The colors are as expected in person, very bright and highly saturated, and the colors are balanced about the same as they are in the images. I like the colors of this yarn just as much as the BigName brand of cake yarns that are similar to this, and I like the feel of this yarn much more. This is a solid choice for color change yarn cakes, and I'm having a lot of fun knitting with this yarn.The yarn is soft, gentle on the skin for acrylic, and easy to work with. It frogs easily, and it works up to the given gauge on the recommended tools with my usual tension. This yarn doesn't split as much as I thought that it might, it has a tight twist to the ply that makes it a breeze to work with, even with multiple attempts at new stitches and froggings.I'm using this yarn to make a lace shawl that uses less than 400g of yarn, and it's working up beautifully! This light weight yarn is great for my first attempts at lace knitting, and this yarn is giving the fabric a beautiful drape.I would have liked to have ordered the four pack to see if the yarn would come in different dye lots and if they would match up reasonably well, but only the single ball option was available to me.I'm very pleased with this yarn and all of the gorgeous color choices, and this yarn has quickly become one of my favorites to work with!

This yarn cake was just ok for me. I felt like the colors I received weren't what was pictured - and no it's not because everyone's screen show colors a little bit differently. My other frustration was that I felt the ply came undone quite a lot more than my other regular go-to yarns. Not the worst. Not the best.

I’ve been really into crocheting mandalas lately, but the problem with a lot of yarns for this is that they either change colors in only a couple of stitches, or take an eternity to change colors. But this one looks like it’ll be perfect! No matter what pattern I use, I’ll be able to see several color changes in this beautiful color scheme. I’ve used Estako acrylic yarns before and they glide smoothly and are easy to use, so I’m really looking forward to using this for a beautiful mandala. With the way my cake is set up the colors won’t be quite in rainbow order, but it’ll still be beautiful and has a vibrant rainbow color scheme.

Cons:I only have one con for this yarn, and that’s that my cake came with a dye flaw. Between the yellow and green, there is a weird patch of grey. Not sure if that’s a flaw, but it should be, since it looks out of place amongst the other colors. However the real flaw is that within this grey patch, there are four tiny random spots of color that shouldn’t be there. There is no other variegation like this anywhere else in the skein (not even in the rest of the grey patch) and I wouldn’t expect there to be. Yarn “cakes” like this are generally supposed to be long sections of solid color to create a self striping effect. I received this yarn free to review, and plan to keep the scarf for myself, so I just let it go, but if I had paid for it, or planned to use this yarn for a gift, I’d be upset.Pros:-the colors are lovely and vibrant-this yarn is lovely to work with. It’s slipped easily over the hook and never split once- the starting and ending colors match, so you can join the ends if you wish or join multiple cakes seamlessly with no yarn waste.-this isn’t the softest acrylic yarn I’ve ever worked with, but leagues better than some of the scratchy bargain brandsOther information:- this yarn weight is category 3, also known as DK yarn or Light Worsted Weight. If you are unfamiliar with yarn weights, this means that it’s thinner than common craft yarn that many people are familiar with, with is a category 4 yarn, also known as Worsted Weight or Aran yarn. Personally I like working with DK yarn, I think the thinner yarn was perfect for my project.-I made a scarf and 1 cake was the perfect amount. A 4mm crochet hook and a basic double crochet zig zag pattern resulted in a scarf that was 6.5 inches wide by 54 inches long.Overall, for only $10, this is a lovely acrylic yarn cake. The colors are vibrant, it’s easy to work with, and one cake is plenty of yarn to create small projects like scarves or hats. And if you do need more than one cake for your project, the starting and ending colors conveniently match. I’d give 5 out of 5 stars, if my cake hadn’t come with a dye flaw.

Great yarn. Bright colorful, no bleeding or yarn snags. Crochets up easily, great value.

I had an idea for some fun egg shaped bowls for Easter. The transitions were a lot longer than I thought but its still a fun set. I did find that the greens transfered to the lighter colors though which looks like dirt spots unfortunately. I did not wash this to see if they bleed when wet.