Honest Temu Haul Review: Unveiling Yarn & Crochet Tool Deals! Are They Worth It?

This was all under $130. So you've probably heard of Temu by now, right? They got a lot of stuff. But did you know that they have yarn and knit and crochet tools and all kinds of things that you can use for your projects? I found out and I got curious, so I went on a little shopping spree. And by little, I mean a big shopping spree. I got a bunch of yarn, a bunch of tools. I'm going to rip into this and give you my first impressions on these items. I'm going to deep dive though into a lot of these because when I was shopping a lot of these reminded me of other things that I've either used in the past or I currently use and I want to see how they stack up to what I have on hand that I spent way more for and see Are these good deals? Like actually good deals. So be sure you hit the like, subscribe, notification bell so that if you see something in here that I open up and you're like oh I want to know how that works I'll have it eventually. But in the meantime if you see anything that you like that I'm going through everything is linked in the description so you can go check it out yourself. But first let's see what's inside. So let me dig in. I'm gonna run out of room if I just put it on top of the bag. So let's start with some yarn. Now, a lot of the Temu yarn comes in quantity packs, so you have to be very careful when reading the descriptions, not only for how much you're buying, but what's in it, what is it, what's the weight, like is it bulky weight, what's the weight is in grams, how many yards or meters. Every description is not created equal, so you may find some yarn that you love the picture of, but you can't find enough information on it, and you don't want to risk it. So I might have took some of the risk out for some of these, because if you like how they look, and when I start working with them in my deep dive videos... You might really want to grab some of this, so remember links are in the description. But this first yarn, this is a Nia's yarn and it's called I Love This Easy Yarn Best for Beginners. It looks like a worsted weight. It's very soft. It feels like a Vanna's Choice. It is 80% acrylic and 20% rayon. It's got care instructions, but it has nothing on the ball band for the weight Yardage, or what size needles you're using. So it's not quite best for beginners, because if you're a beginner, you're not going to know what to use with this. You're not going to know how much you have, and you're not going to know if you're going to have enough to make your project, so not great. So for the yarn, I like the yarn itself, I like the color, I do not like the ball band, So I'm going to give this right now. I'll give it a three and a half out of five. So the next thing is like this travel yarn holder. So this is a little mini kind of travel yarn holder. I've never seen these before until I saw it on Temu and now I actually saw it at a other website, a little bit more expensive than what I got it for Temu, but it has different designs. So I picked this kind of, they called it red. I liked this design. They have some pretty cute designs that go with this, but you'll just slide it in. There's a little kind of carabiner circle. So you'll put your yarn first. Put your yarn here just like if you have a cake. Something that you can place on there. And then you'll place your ring on here. And then you have a coordinating little Wristlet. get everything connected and then you can have your yarn and work as you go. I think this is super cute. I'm gonna try it out and see how it works with the yarn like on it because it's like I don't know if the spinning is gonna happen really well here but for the design of it and the quality of it for how much it cost I'm gonna give this like Four and a half out of five. Okay, back to some more yarn. If you've been to my About page, you know that I love Chroma fingering yarn from Knit Picks. And this looked like it in the picture on the website. The actual shape of it is much different. Chroma's like flat. It's flat like a donut and not so much like a coffee mug. But the actual fiber of this is Almost identical, like it reminds me of Chroma. It's a single ply, color changing, and you can see the extra colors in here. So I got a three pack of this to try out. So I will be swatching this up to see, but it looks like it has nice long color changes. Again, the ball band, very, very plain. It just gives washing care instructions. And our outside bag just says, do not suffocate. So again, you have to look at your descriptions very carefully. Hopefully this will tell me how much yardage it has and stuff so that I can plan a good project with it. So for the color... The feel of the yarn, it feels like a merino. It feels like a 100% wool. I'll have to confirm that with my listings. But it is very similar to a Knit Picks in my opinion. So I'm going to give this, just to start off, ball band being bad, I'll give it a 4 out of 5. Alright, next. Knit blockers. Yeah, this looks identical almost. I have some of these and we'll deep dive to show you the difference. But these are. They're a little different actually. I kind of like this. It's got a little curve to it. So I have some knit blockers that are for pinning and these are great because they give you a lot of pins at once. So when you're doing like flat edges, it's a lot faster to pin your flat edges. But even if you have pointed edges, this can kind of help you pin it and you can do the triangles or whatever you need to do. But it usually comes with quite a few large ones and then a couple half size, well there's like eight half size Size 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. and 12 big size, so i am always constantly running out of the one that i do have that's similar to this um but this one was way cheaper and it looks like the pins are good quality, oh those are very sharp, very sharp, they usually give you like a little piece of foam to stick them into um Realistically, this looks very similar to the more expensive one that I have. So right off the bat, it's got a nice storing case. I'm going. Five out of five on this one I don't remember ordering this one. It's like a little singlet. So it looks like some wool, but I don't like this right here already. I don't know what that is. Looks like we've got a knot or it's coming apart. So this one may not be the greatest quality. Oh wait, hold on Oh yeah I think we lost some ends there. Unless that's my starting. Unless that's like a really awesome what is it? I don't know. It's kind of stuck I don't know. I don't know if that's an edge that just came apart or if it's my starting edge. I don't think it's my starting edge because it doesn't want to come out. But this is Every Shine Merino Wool Um we have some actual fiber listed. So we have 70% merino, 20% nylon, and 10% silk It also gives us a 50 ounce weight, so we're getting better on the labels! Clean, dry, flat. I don't see yardage again, unfortunately. I do see the silk. I can see the silk kind of because it does have a little bit of a sheen. The merino is not... it's nice It's not as soft as some merino that I've felt, so I wouldn't say that this is a very high-end merino But the color is nice. Again, missing yardage I would love to know how much yardage is in each of these. I'm gonna have to check my descriptions when I deep dive But right off the bat, if that is a piece that's broken off I'm gonna give this like a two out of five. I don't want to be tying and weaving in a bunch of ends. Okay, I absolutely love these when I saw these. They are not like Like anything that I have, I just had to have them They probably will suck. When I actually use them, but I can use them for my pictures at least. Look at these crochet hooks. How freaking cute are these? They also come, so these are the multicolored pack and they're really long. Um they also come in black and I was really tempted to get both but I'm like and black does not photograph as well as the colors and I can mix and match and stuff. So let me pull these out for a quick sec. Oh here's here's a little example of the black right there. So let me open these up and just kind of give them a little feel real quick. Okay, for some reason I thought these were metal and they are not metal. They are a plastic. Fantastic. It's not a horrible like plastic, but I know there is a seam that I can... feel, so after hours and hours of crocheting, that seam might get to be really annoying. It does have kind of that thumb grip up here, and it has the tapered shaft that I like where it's a little bit more pointy so that you can get into the stitch easier, and I do like the length of the shaft, it's, I like to kind of, I like these kind of stoppers, because I usually will kind of like push it all the way into the, until I hit my stopper and then And then do my stitch if you ever watch my videos. Um, I love the designs. I don't know how ergonomic. So if you're, let's see, what's pencil hold? Pencil hold. I don't, I guess like pencil hold, I think it's pointing towards you. So that could work kind of good. Don't know about knife hold. I don't know. They remind me of like an Addi swing crochet hook, which I need to revisit because I'm starting to have hand pain. I'm getting in the 40s now. I'm having hand pain. I need to start looking into that stuff. But it's a good range. It's got 2.5 all the way to 6 millimeter. So you're covered for a lot of projects. And they're just so stinking cute. I love the colors of these. So I'm going to deep dive and use one of these for an upcoming project and see how long I can last using them. The shafts seem decent. That one's got like a little bit of a nubby nub kind of feel. Not, not the greatest, you know, but for design and cuteness, like a five out of five. For practicality, probably like a 2 out of 5, so we'll meet in the middle at like 3.5, right? That makes sense. So keep an eye out for the deep dive on this one. All right, more yarn! This is a mohair yarn, if you could not tell. This is a mohair. This is, it says on, there's no ball band, we're going like down on each of these, but there is a sticker on the outside of the bag, so it did come in a four pack, and it says 30% mohair, 20% merino wool, and 50% polyester. It definitely is not as soft as the higher-end mohair, and it's not quite as... furry as I thought it was going to be. Usually with mohair, you'll have like a really good haze. Maybe once I start working with it, that might kind of happen with my hands and stuff, but we'll give it a try. You know, it's very thin. It's probably like a lace weight. So we'll, we'll give it a try and see how it works out. Again, it's probably like 50 grams per. So who knows how many yards with lace weight, you usually get a lot for weight. Um, I'll see what The descriptions say keep following. Following for the deep dive, but straight out of the package, color beautiful, mohair not too, not too furry, um, ball pen lacking. I'm gonna go three out of five. Okay, this next one is big time, like, the description, like, didn't mention any of this. I have no idea why it came like this. I thought I was just getting some cashmere yarn. I have, like, Cashmere yarn, cashmere thread, and then cashmere spools of thread, so I'm... Maybe this is like for using on an actual machine, but let's see if it's real cashmere. So when I bought this, this is blowing me away, this was like not expensive at all. Go hit the link in the description to see how much all of this was, but this feels... Very soft. This, so it's 50 grams. We got that at least. And it actually gives a knitting needle size of 11-12, I think is what it says. There is care instructions again. I'm thinking like a lot of these might be used for like knitting machines where like you'll just kind of keep putting it on, Especially after getting... thread and a bobbin like i just feel like i'm gonna sew with this afterwards i don't know but this yarn is really soft i was hoping that it was going to be an actual cashmere yarn and it seems soft enough to be cashmere and for how much i got because this is 50 grams so i have 300 grams of cashmere plus like the stuff that It's about half the weight. You could probably, like, double this up and use it as yarn if you really wanted to. This was a steal. Like, so far with this, I'm giving it a 5 out of 5 for sure. So, I got this next set of crochet hooks because I thought in the picture that it looked like another set that I already have, which I'll deep dive because it still is pretty similar. But I kind of like these better. Like, these are very cool. They're like an onyx opal. Almost on the hook end of it. These feel very similar to my other hooks. These are sized though, which is kind of interesting. I'm noticing. Oh, maybe it's not maybe it's just well no yeah so these are sized they're millimeter and then they have numbers so this might make sense for that 11 and 12 on the yarn because these have like a 5.0 and then an eight so for us that would be a US H but this is obviously marked for like a different country so as long as you know your millimeters you're good to go but they have the kind of rubber grips They don't have a very visible seam. They don't have a very, you know, seam that you can really feel. The shafts are very nice and smooth. The colors are really cool. Maybe it's just a blue. I don't know. Maybe I'm seeing things. But they're really pretty. So I'll deep dive these against the ones that I thought they were going to be close to because These are a really good deal. These are really good. So these also go from a 2.5 which I think is an even wider range than what I have to a 6.0. So right off the bat for what these things cost I'm gonna give them like a 4 out of 5. 4.5 out of 5 actually. I've got more yarn! So this one is noisy. Let's see. Outside does not have any information. The inside doesn't look like it has much information either. So I saw this. This was like a mohair. Like this is what I picture when I say mohair. Like furry. And it was self-striping. So you know that I love chroma, I love anything self-striping. So this thing was super cool and I want to say it had a lot of yardage in the description. So it looks like a fingering, like it's you can see the fur on that thing. So it doesn't have anything I believe. Yeah there's like nothing to describe this so I'm gonna have to rely on my description in my deep dive when I swatch with this. I don't know how it's gonna swatch. It's sticky as heck so it's probably going to be a nightmare if you have to unravel it but if you are confident in the project you're making this could be so pretty so we'll see. Off the bat, with no ball band, to know what this is or how much there is, I'm gonna give it a three out of five. It's kinda, it's not super soft, so we'll, we'll see how it goes on this one. Okay, I'm getting near the end. This thing is something that I was like, this is gonna be super cool or absolutely horrible. And I'll have to put it together so you can actually see what it is. But it will eventually be a magnet that holds my yarn hanging and should like effortlessly let me work my yarn off of this standing thing. I don't think it's going to work at all. This has got to be a really strong magnet. So I'm going to put this thing together real quick so we can take a look at it. Here comes the little screwdriver. Okay, ease of construction, very simple. This thing worked like a charm. Not super comfortable to use, but hey, it came with it, so you didn't have to go hunt down a screwdriver, so bonus points for that. I'm gonna throw some yarn on this, so let's use my self-striping. So this is the whole point. You're gonna put it on there, then this magnet right at the top there should Hold this. Oh, I'm like, there's no touching. Oh, that's a lot of mohair. It's hanging. Free hangin', so it looks like it would spin pretty easily, but... Will it work when I'm actually crocheting, knitting the slack or knitting and knitting the slack? You're gonna have to watch the deep dive to see if this thing actually works. Okay, I'm down to my last yarn, which I got two different colors of because it reminded me of one of my favorite yarns and that is the Zauberball. Zauberball, it's German. They have a couple different versions. This scarf. that i literally get emails weekly on what yarn i used for it looks like this yarn when i saw it online so i particularly the color that i picked is as close as i could get to that scarf because i wanted to see how close it was but look at this yarn this is the Zauberball does this not look like even like the little hang tag is Pretty identical. They have, they like, the Zauberball will take kind of each color and it will be its own little section of the winding. So you can see that it feels, the yarn feels like it. It feels like the wool that the Zauberball is made out of. So I'm going to like, I can't wait to swatch with this in the deeper dive to see how well it's working up and what it looks like. I am most happy with the tag that they gave me. It actually has some information. Thank you. This one says, I'm sure I did not say that correctly. And it says each group is unique. My name is Nick. Dyed wool yarn, so it is wool. So the component is 20% polyester and 80% wool. And it tells me a length. 100 grams, and I don't know if this is accurate, this could be exaggerating, but this thing says it's 800 meters. It does seem pretty large. I'm going to say it's a fingering weight, which is what my Zauberball scarf is made out of. That one is probably only like 450 yards though for a Zauberball. So this being almost double the size and for way less in price, like I am I'm truly impressed with this, and I got a different color as well. This was going to be as good as I was thinking it was. This one, actually, so it's the same one, except this one reminds me more of the Chroma. So this one really looks like Nitpick's Chroma. It's got... But Not quite the same where every color is kind of its own winding. It's more of just the straight throughout, but they are like a single ply wool. I like that it's 20% polyester, which is probably like nylon. I'm really interested to swatch with these and see how well they work. If the color joins, because a lot of color joins on self-striping can be really ugly and tied and not like an actual shifting color. The Zauberballs have a shifting color. They don't have a lot of tied ends, so that's always interesting for me to find out when I start using self-striping. But this is on par with my cashmere. I'm giving this a 5 out of 5 for right now Okay, last but not least... I like that little container for these. I'll use it thoroughly. Trying to figure out what this is yet. I have been looking at this for a bit and I finally was like I'm gonna get it this time because I'm doing a crochet granny square challenge right now with hobby yarn. So can you guess what this is? So this is a granny square blocking mat and I wish I had a granny square right here but I'll deep dive into this. But you pin your granny squares to this and you can stretch them out so you because these are so long you can put multiple granny squares and pin these out so that they are all the same size i am loving this thing i can't wait to try this so you put all your granny squares just stack them on top of each other and let them block so that they are all the same size this is very cool and i like that it's very compact I don't have to have this put together all the time. I love this little container for the pins and it's got two different oh oh no so it's got I think it's got 20 of the pins. This is where you need to read your descriptions because there are a ton of these on the website but some may only have six pins, some may have 10 pins. I picked this one because it had 20 pins and then it actually has some yarn needles in there too which you know what a yarn needle looks like so I don't need to get it out but that's like a handy little extra. There's like three or four of them in there so nice big metal yarn needles which I like metal yarn needles better than the plastic because they kind of slide better. So I like, it doesn't, it has a smell, a wood smell. It doesn't have like a chemical smell or anything, but it's very heavy. Like it's a very heavy piece of wood. It's not like a cheap piece of wood. So very excited to use this. Check out the deep dive. Right off the bat, four and a half So overall I am like super pleasantly surprised with what I got from Timu. I did not expect to like literally everything that I got. I thought I would have a couple stinkers, but everything has been like decent or way above the expectations that I had going in. There are a couple items like this mohair yarn. I'm not sure how well it's going to work. I don't know how this thing's going to work once I start using it, but it's kind of cool to like, even if I can't use it to crochet with, like it's a cool little art piece to like display some yarn. So if you have like really pretty yarn, you can just put this up and it's kind of like a cool little, you know, cat will probably love it. But Overall like this stuff is cool. All of this was under $130. That is like I think I counted it was like 21 Things of yarn, not counting all of those little threads and things that I got with the cashmere yarn, two sets of crochet hooks, two yarn holders, a blocker blocking pins, like this was a haul. I am excited to check out what else might catch my eye there. If there's something that you're kind You're kind of thinking about getting, but you're afraid to buy it. Tell me below, like maybe I'll go buy it and do another review just so that you can see if it's a scam or not. So far like I am truly impressed with what I got and I can't wait to deep dive and try all of these things so be sure that you're hitting the notification bell so you can see how all of this stuff actually works out when I start using it. Remember everything that I've shown is linked in the description so you can go check them out yourself but I am Deja with Knit and Crochet Ever After and thank you for watching.