obviously this isn't always doable, but if you can easily break a commercial yarn, that's not a good sign. If you can discretely find an end, see if you can pull off a couple inches with your hands. the more plies something has, the more durable and strong it will be 2 plies is iffy for me with a commercial yarn, as i find it can be fragile and doesn't hold up well (but again, handspun is a different story. single ply yarn is notorious for falling apart quickly and/or pilling severely and immediately-the exception is usually when it's handspun. How many plies does it have ? roving isn't even really one ply, since it's unspun and untwisted. Is this a single cohesive piece of yarn, or is it a bunch of random pieces of plastic/cloth/snips of yarn that are tied together? On the other hand, there's a lot of good cheap yarn out there ! durability is a really important factor of yarn and also, apparently, the hardest thing to get right for these companies □ the main things to look for are unfortunate, bc it's not gonna last more than a few months. i see people buying a couple hundred dollars of it sometimes for blankets, which is. the local stuff that you can touch with your hands is a lot more likely to be good quality ! meanwhile the expensive lines in box stores are generally really bad-there was that roving blanket thing for a long while, and currently in my area it's "yarn" that's basically a few ounces of worm-on-a-string material for $20. I'm sorry it's discouraging (i didn't mean it to be).
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