My favorite go-to yarn is Lion Brand, but I'm always on the lookout for lovely, cheap yarns. I tried Paton's several months ago when I found it on sale at a craft store nearby. I bought enough skeins to make a winter hat and mittens for myself. I made the Fair Isle hat but have not yet made the mittens, because I got caught up in other projects that I was making for Christmas presents. That hat is one of the warmest hats I've ever had the pleasure of wearing. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) our winter here in PA was inordinately mild, so I didn't have many opportunities to wear the hat last year. But I'm hoping for a brisk, cold winter with lots of snow so I can get good mileage out of the hat and mittens this year! ;-)