Red Heart With Love Yarn
We created Red Heart With Love yarn for crafters who demand softness without sacrificing durability. This medium-weight acrylic fiber delivers luxurious hand-feel and brilliant color saturation in every skein, making it the ideal choice for afghans, sweaters, baby items, and home décor projects that need to stand up to regular washing.
Each 7 oz skein provides 370 yards of consistent, smooth yarn that works beautifully with hooks and needles alike. Our proprietary fiber blend resists pilling and fading through countless wash cycles, while the generous yardage means fewer joins and color transitions in your finished pieces.
- 7 oz (198 g) skeins with 370 yards (338 m) per skein
- 100% premium acrylic fiber for ultimate softness
- Medium weight (4) — perfect for most patterns
- Machine wash warm, tumble dry low for easy care
- Available in 40+ rich, fade-resistant colors
Fiber construction and performance
Red Heart With Love yarn features our advanced acrylic fiber technology that mimics the drape and softness of natural fibers while delivering superior washability. The medium-weight construction provides excellent stitch definition for textured patterns—cables, bobbles, and lace work all showcase beautifully without the yarn splitting or fraying during manipulation.
We engineered this specialty yarn with a tightly spun 4-ply structure that resists splitting on the hook while maintaining flexibility for comfortable extended crafting sessions. The fiber’s low-static formulation prevents tangling and snagging, and the consistent twist throughout each skein ensures uniform tension in your finished fabric.
Color selection and pairing
Our With Love palette spans 40+ shades designed for seamless color-work and variegated project designs. From soft pastels perfect for nursery items to deep jewel tones ideal for winter accessories, every colorway undergoes rigorous dye-lot testing to ensure batch-to-batch consistency.
The fiber’s high dye absorption creates rich, saturated hues that resist fading even after 50+ wash cycles in independent lab testing. Solid colors coordinate effortlessly—our online color card groups complementary shades for quick palette planning. Neutrals like Aran, Pewter, and Chocolate provide versatile foundations for multi-color projects, while brights like Berry Red, Blue Hawaii, and Evergreen add bold accents.
Project versatility and gauge
Afghan and blanket applications
Red Heart With Love yarn excels in large-format projects where softness and durability matter most. The 370-yard skeins minimize mid-project joins, and the fiber’s excellent drape creates cozy afghans that don’t feel stiff or heavy. A standard throw blanket (50″ × 60″) requires approximately 6-8 skeins depending on stitch pattern density.
Garments and wearables
The yarn’s medium weight works beautifully for sweaters, cardigans, shawls, and accessories. Its soft hand-feel sits comfortably against skin without itching, making it suitable for children’s clothing and sensitive-skin adults. The fiber’s elasticity provides shape retention in ribbed cuffs and necklines, while the machine-washable care instructions simplify garment maintenance.
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Red Heart With Love Yarn questions
Yes, Red Heart With Love yarn is an excellent choice for baby blankets and nursery items. The fiber meets ASTM F963 and EN71 international toy safety standards, meaning it’s been tested for harmful substances and mechanical hazards.
The soft acrylic won’t irritate delicate skin, and the machine-washable care makes it practical for parents who need to launder items frequently. Many crafters prefer it over natural fibers for baby items specifically because it maintains softness through repeated washing without requiring special detergents or hand-washing.
A typical throw blanket measuring 50 inches by 60 inches requires 6 to 8 skeins of Red Heart With Love yarn, depending on your stitch pattern and personal tension. Dense stitch patterns like single crochet or moss stitch use more yardage, while openwork patterns like granny squares or V-stitch require fewer skeins.
We recommend purchasing all skeins from the same dye lot to ensure perfect color matching. For larger afghans (60″ × 80″ or bigger), plan for 10-12 skeins. You can use our online yardage calculator by entering your project dimensions and preferred stitch pattern for a more precise estimate.
Red Heart With Love yarn features a softer hand-feel and enhanced drape compared to our classic Super Saver. With Love uses a finer-spun acrylic fiber that creates a more luxurious texture, making it ideal for wearables and items that will be in close contact with skin.
Super Saver offers more yardage per skein (364 yards versus 370 yards) and a slightly firmer structure that excels in high-durability applications like tote bags and outdoor items. Both are medium-weight yarns with similar gauge specifications, so you can often substitute one for the other in patterns, though the finished fabric’s drape and softness will differ.
Absolutely—Red Heart With Love yarn works beautifully for both knitting and crochet projects. For knitting, we recommend US size 8 (5 mm) needles, which produce a fabric gauge of approximately 18 stitches and 24 rows per 4 inches in stockinette stitch.
For crochet, use a size I-9 (5.5 mm) hook for standard gauge of 16 single crochet stitches and 20 rows per 4 inches. The yarn’s smooth texture glides easily through both needles and hooks without splitting, and the medium weight provides enough structure for textured stitch patterns while remaining flexible for garment construction.
Red Heart With Love yarn is engineered to resist pilling and shedding through normal use and laundering. Our proprietary acrylic fiber features a tight spin and anti-pill treatment that keeps finished projects looking new even after 50+ wash cycles.
Minor fuzzing may occur in high-friction areas like the underarms of sweaters or the seat area of afghans, but this is normal for any textile and can be easily removed with a fabric shaver. Unlike natural fibers that felt or degrade with washing, this acrylic fiber actually becomes softer with each laundry cycle while maintaining its structural integrity and color vibrancy.
For amigurumi and stuffed toys, we recommend downsizing to a G-6 (4 mm) crochet hook or US size 6 (4 mm) knitting needles when working with Red Heart With Love yarn. The smaller hook creates a tighter fabric with minimal gaps between stitches, preventing stuffing from showing through or poking out.
This tighter gauge produces a firmer, more structured fabric ideal for three-dimensional shapes that need to hold their form. Expect approximately 20 single crochet stitches per 4 inches with this hook size. The yarn’s softness remains intact even with the denser fabric, making finished toys cuddly and huggable.
For the smoothest joins with Red Heart With Love yarn, we recommend the spit-splice method for felting yarn ends together, though this works best with natural fibers. Since this is 100% acrylic, the Russian join or braided join techniques work better.
Alternatively, simply start your new skein at the beginning of a row and weave in ends securely on the wrong side of your work—the yarn’s smooth texture allows woven ends to blend invisibly. For color-change projects, plan your transitions at natural break points like the end of a granny square round or a stripe change. Our video tutorial library includes step-by-step joining demonstrations for both knitting and crochet applications.