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Think I've made a huge mistake buying the Eskimo wool for the Drops Design Hoodie.  Dreadful stuff.  Horrible. Made the mistake - against my own previous advice - of buying the wool on-line so hadn't seen how crap it is! and the colour is awful!  It's an unstructured yarn a bit like Lopi.  It is very thick and looks like the matted dangly bits off a lamb's backside and I'm not talking about the tail, you understand.  It splits constantly and is felting as I knit.  The colour is a bilious green and not the pleasant sage-green I thought it was.  Not good value at all although it only set me back £36 ($50?).  I seriously doubt that the garment could be worn more than a few times without trashing and I would say it would be impossible to wash or clean.  One for the dog basket I think, except I don't own a dog...bugger!