New O'Go Yarn!

I am very excited about the new O'Go yarn now becoming available! It is the same yarn you know and enjoy. From well known brands like Bernat Blanket, Caron, and Red Heart. In solid colors, and multi colored options. 

But instead of being in a skein or cake... it comes in something really new and cool. It comes packaged in a round doughnut shape, with a single plastic thread running through the middle. After removing the label you simply cut the plastic thread where the two ends of the yarn bundle meet, then pull the plastic thread right out. Leaving you with an interesting caterpillar shaped yarn bundle. 
And that is it! Now you just grab the outside tail of yarn and start stitching. But instead of the yarn unwinding top to bottom like a normal skein, it unwinds cone like in a small section at a time. Making yarn tension so much easier, as it glides right off the yarn bundle without any tugging needed. And it does not roll away like a yarn ball could! Plus you get the fun of watching the caterpillar of yarn get shorter and shorter as you work on your project. Kind of like a timer getting closer and closer to being finished...
And now for one of my favorite parts. Unlike a yarn cake or skein, with the O'Go yarn you can easily separate the colors without having to rewind it! 

You just hold onto both sides of where the color changes, then simply pull the two colors apart. And the two colors just pop apart! Perfect for if you are doing color work, or even just needing small amounts of different colors for a little project. So if you are making something small like say amigurumi, and you needed 5 different colors, instead of getting 5 whole skeins of each color you could just get one doughnut of Red Heart O'Go instead. 
One small downside to the O'Go yarn is that even though you are still getting the same amount of yardage that you would get in the matching skein form, there is a small price increase. Which I have heard is to help cover the production cost because of the new equipment that was needed. 
But for something that should be tangle free, does not collapse part way through, stays in place easier while you work, and makes it easy to separate the colors, I feel the extra $1 or so would be worth the price.