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There are all sorts of really fun yarns that were never around 10 years ago. There's this.
This is one my favorite kinds of yarns to use. It's called and eyelash yarn. Let me
pull out a piece. You see on the strand of the yarn there's eyelashes coming out. When
you knit with this, you end up with a bit of fluff. See there's fluff on this that comes
out. If you knit a whole scarf or a sweater in it, it ends up looking like fur. So you
can do it in a brown or a black and have a fur jacket, and everyone will think real because
you're not wearing real fur. You made it yourself, so aren't you talented. Then there's this
kind of yarn which has different strands of different things. It's a little dressier wrapped
in. It's a black and white with a gold. When you knit with this, you'll see it's an animal
print. It ends up this one looking like a zebra. It's fun. Then there are these ribbon
yarns. Ribbon yarns are a little bit more difficult. I would recommend waiting because
it's flat. It looks like a ribbon and it really is hard to keep on the needle if you're not
a little bit more than a beginner. If you're an advanced beginner, then don't worry about
it and go for it. This is actually going to be a stole. You see how it wobbles at the
bottom. That's called a ruffle. The pattern will tell you how to do a ruffle, but if you
use this kind of a fluffy yarn it makes it even more exciting. See this one has a drop
stitch. Everything you know how to do already. A drop stitch and a cast together, bind together,
you get your ruffle. One other kind of yarn I want to tell you about. This is another
kind of eyelash yarn, but I like to use this mixed in with another yarn. This is going
to be an extension of the doggy blanket. Remember I showed you that dog coat? Because my friend's
dog got bigger, so rather than knit a whole thing. The dog is actually just longer so
I'm going to attach this to the back. Can you see how I used an eyelash with a flat
yarn so that we have a sort of 2 dimensional thing going on here.