Madeline Tosh Yarn Review!

So I’ve had this great privilege to try out some Madeline Tosh yarn, as well as being featured as one of their MT Studio designers. I usually use acrylic yarn and I did try to use wool yarn once and did not have too good an experience, so it was a real eye opener for me to try out MT’s merino wool. Oh and by the way, the smaller bundles at the same are what they call their Unicorn Tails which has lesser yarn for testing different colours at a lower price point.

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The Madeline Tosh Yarn

I was so excited when I first received it! It was super soft and quite possibly the best quality yarn I’ve ever tried, perhaps having a history of using acrylic yarn may not have been the best track record. It does not fray mostly at all in fact and the final piece does not have stray ends which is great!

Using Carolina Reaper or red yarn

I started off making the body for Betty Bunny by making her hair on her spherical head. It’s a brightish sort of red as opposed to a maroonish shade. It turned out nice and bright like I wanted it to.

Using Pink Clay or beige yarn

Then I was searching for a colour as close to beige as I could find. Sometimes I find some light pinkish shades that are similar to the skin colour. I settled finally on this Pink Clay shade which complemented the red shade pretty well. It does look like skin colour doesn’t it? Think the colour in the left image does not really look quite accurate, it looks more like the beige on the right image. I used the same yarn for the girl’s face and body as well the the rabbit’s snout on the hood, as you will see later.

Using Barbara Deserved Better or pink yarn

This pink yarn (nice name right) has variegated shades on it which was beautiful! I wanted to test it for the bunny ear colours and they turned out pretty neat! The pattern part for the ears can look slightly complicated, I did come up with some new random seamless techniques for this. I had an older technique for making bunny ears here which involves attachment but is fairly easy to do.

Using Optic or white yarn

This has got to be my favourite yarn of the lot! I specifically picked a variegated white and black yarn to see how the final Bunny suit would turn out in the end and I was not disappointed! I felt it was a great shade for making coats, I will probably use the same yarn to create a winter coat for my amis nearing the winter season perhaps! The ears and the hood are made in a continuous stitch without attachment, including adding on the pink part of the ears. So you ready to see the final piece? I’ll put a comparison side by side with my usual acrylic yarn.

My acrylic yarn version

Don’t get me wrong, I still love my original acrylic yarn version and the colours were meant to be bright. With the MT yarn, I opted for more elegant shades and variegation to add some interesting shades, with great effect at the end! I used the same exact pattern for both, which is available as part of a bundle just below!

The Merino Wool version with Madeline Tosh’s yarn!

Ta-da the final version with the MT yarn! I just love love the colours - don’t you think so? I have also never used some great quality yarn before, I was always worried to try out wool yarn because I have had some bad experiences with fraying wool yarn. But this yarn had even less fraying than my acrylic yarn! I loved the final piece so much I took so many photos haha!

So do check out my feature on Madeline Tosh’s website as the October designer of the month, I feel so privileged to have this opportunity, their hand dyed yarn is really really amazing and enjoyable to use! This pattern is also made by yours truly and she is called Betty Bunny. She is available as in a bundle together with the other Teepee babies, which will be available right at the bottom!