Review Wednesday:Madelinetosh Prairie

Sorry I have been slow on the posts, folks. I just haven't had anything to review. No info, no posts. That's just the way the cookie crumbles. But today I am reviewing madelinetosh prairie yarn. It is a lace weight yarn. I was using the earl grey color way. This goes from tan to caramel, then to slate blue, and finally to grey. I did not actually purchase it myself. It was purchased for me to use in the making of a shawl for my best friend, Marcie.
I love the colors. Their dying process and colors available are an A+. And the shawl turned out really beautifully. But while trying to ball it up, no matter how careful, it was a mass of tangles. Seriously. It took us, that is me and my husband, two straight weeks to unwind. And no, I do not own a swift or a ball unwinding thingy, but if anyone would like to buy me one, they can knock themselves out. Till then, oh well. And it seemed to pill a lot in the process, which I did not anticipate and did not care for. And it also got really squiggly (is that a word?) But the yardage is great for the money.
In the end, it was a really nice yarn, but I think that I would like to try some other lace weight yarns before I could give it 5 stars to compare. And I think that I almost prefer a fingering weight yarn for my laceweight shawls. Something with a little heft and squishyness. Maybe that defeats the point of a lace shawl, but that is just me.
4 out of 5 stars