Rico Design Creative Bubble Scrubby Yarn: A Review 

Rico Design Creative Bubble Solids & Prints is a 100% polyester scrubby sparkly yarn. The braided center has the “scrubby” fringe woven through it. Unfortunately, the fringe is not tightly oven into the braid core and can be pulled loose.

“Rico Design is one of the leading brands for DIY/Craft products for hand kitting yarns, embroidery, fabric, stationery, party, arts and crafts and jewellery assortments in Europe.” And you can purchase their yarns online at Universal Yarns.  Learn More about Rico Designs here.

Disclaimers

• This post is not affiliated or sponsored by any of the products reviewed and presented. 
• All yarn was purchased and used by me, and me alone. These rankings represent my opinions.

Yarn’s overall score 4.0 ⭐

The overall score is based on an average of individual scores in the following categories; knitting ease, yarn durability, consistency of skein, finished object appeal, variety of yarn options.  

5 Knitting ease – surprisingly soft and easy to knit with
3 Yarn durability – Not as durable as other sparkly scrubby yarns
3 Consistency of skein – Some transitions were not matching the fringe and base of the yarn
4 Finished Object appeal – love it!
5 Variety of options – 38 solids, 7 prints 

Rico Design Creative Bubble Solids & Prints Scrubby Yarn Details

Retail price $4.50 for solids (or $0.046/yd), $5.00 for prints (or $0.051/yd)

Fiber content 100% Polyester
Yarn weight 2 – fine
Oz/g 50 gram
Yds/m 98 yards
Available colorways 38 solids, 7 prints
Machine washable: Yes
Tumble dry: No
Sample knit “One Color 10-st Scrubby” (pattern coming soon!) in the Partie colorway. Used 6g or 12 yds. Could knit 8 single color scrubbies per skein with yarn left over yarn. Finished size 4.5” 

Rico Creative Design Bubble Solids & Prints Scrubby Yarn Full Review

Rico Creative Design Bubble Solids & Prints Scrubby Yarn is available in 38 solid colorways and 7 prints.

Hooray! Let the fun begin just choosing the colors!

This is a tightly braided yarn with the fringe shooting out from all around the yarn. While this is 100% polyester the fringe does feel different than the core of the yarn.

This is one of the softest sparkly yarns I have knit with to date! It’s difficult to imagine this being able to do a good scrub job, but it could do a light scrub job without irritating your hands since it has a softer texture. 

Even though the softness makes me question its scrubbability, I absolutely love the texture of this scrubby! The yarn was quite easy to knit with and didn’t get to me with my texture issues. The fringe is definitely softer than other sparkly scrubby yarns. 

I was able to pull from the center quite easily on this one. The only thing was huge yarn barf. I tried to ignore it because (look at the pic) it didn’t look too bad. But actually it was a huge tangled mess. Thankfully I was just knitting a scrubby so it was easy for me to weave my knitting needle and WIP through the tangled yarns and get it free. 

I love love love the colors of this and how the finished object turned out. Out of the sparkly yarn that I tried so far, this one is less sparkly, and more “glowy”. Like it really shines in the light which is fun and different! 

Pros & Cons

PROS

• Soft! 
• Easy to knit with! 
• Many solids and some print to choose from! 

CONS

• Not a very scrubby yarn
• The fringe does not appear to be tightly woven into the core resulting in stray fringe coming loose (see pic) 

Final thought on Rico Design Creative Bubble Solids & Prints Yarn

Overall I really enjoyed knitting with this yarn and I do like the way the products look. However, the yarn was not as tightly put together as I would have liked and I’m sure that with some scrubbing it would fall apart.

And there you have it! If you have any questions about this yarn or have a pattern to use with it? Let me know in the comments!

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