Hilarious! That’s so amazing that the two yarns are absolutely identical. Love the yarny detective work you do for us, Crystal! ❤ (you could start another channel called Scotland Yarn … 🤣) But here’s another question: how did Turkey become the world producer of acrylic yarn? Just curious.

Most people in the USA don't realize that brand names are ephemeral and changeable. An item that comes out of a factory will be shipped to different locations with brand name labels that reflect the companies doing business in a given location. What the individual company pays the factory can vary. Another company may have paid a different amount for the same or similar item. I once read there are more than 600 brand names for bacon but only about 6 companies that actually process it.

Comparing yarns is your great ability I thank you for helping all of us to see the difference and saving us the leg work I have learned so much about the types and differences in all the yarns and stitches and beautiful things I have gotten from you here on KZfaq channel....

I was shopping Ice Yarns for their Picasso and checked out the clearance section before making my purchase. Let me tell you how excited I was to find some beautiful yarns to add to my cart and ended up paying less than $5 per ball for 16 Picasso's and 12 balls of other yarns. The $5 included the shipping too!

The nearest JoAnns to me is an hour drive so unless I have other reasons to go to there it isn't worth spending 2 hours and at least $7 in gas money to go there. The thing I dislike about their website is that you can't use more than one coupon at a time. So if I have a 40% off one item and another coupon I would have to make separate orders and pay shipping on both. Michaels online is like that too but we have a Michaels in town. That's my mini rant.

My word, can you believe it...just the labels are different. You just have to check whenever you want to buy...amazing.. thanks for sharing with us Crystal. Have a great day 😊

Hi. Crystal. Nice. To. See. You. Today. .....thank. .you. For. This. Video. ..this. Information. Is. Very. Helpful. . .I. Love. The Mandela yarn and. I. Love. Your. Channel

Those are beautiful colors.Thanks for sharing with us. I have never tried the Mandala cakes.👍👍🎉🎉🎉🧡🤎💛💙

My Mom worked at a local retail store in the 60s. The owner took her to Atlanta to a trade show. My Mom saw first hand how the vendors took orders for the clothing. The same shirts on a table were sold at different wholesale prices depending on what label the purchasers want in the shirts. So if your store wanted to sale high in labels, you paid for that label. Same shirts with less expensive labels, you paid less. Looks like this is still the way things work in most categories of sales

I love it when I find different yarns all the same just different labels . Also it gives you a chance for a cheaper one. No decent yarn stores near me. Only dollar type stores,. So I get most of my yarn in the post, I am saving for an Ice yarn order Thank you so much Crystal. Kind regards from London

I live in Wisconsin and I buy yarn at Herrschner a Wisconsin retailer. The shipping is $ 18.00, but if you spend more than $75 is free. I don’t understand why being in the same state shipping so high compared to Ice .

Dear Crystal,🌹 thank you very much for compering the yarns. Please make more comparison videos. 👏 Yarnart Flowers cake and Hobbii Twister cake are also very interesting, both cakes are the same but the price is diffrent. Big hug from Germany.👍

Hey, Crystal! Thanks for doing this for us who are watching our yarn pennies.

Crystal, I agree with you it would be less expensive to go to Joann's. Great choices also. 👌

You had me laughing! Fun video! My dog loves to bark at NOTHING…but hides behind me when an actual person is at the door! Thanks for the comparison.

Hi Crystal- I’m always happy to get a notification that you’ve put up a new video! I wanted to tell you that I can quit nagging you to tell me your crochet story because I watched an interview with you. (I cannot remember the ladies name that was doing the interview)- anyway, I learned how and who taught you to crochet. What a true blessing to have a neighbor like that! I’m so glad you had a good visit w/Gary. I’m glad for myself as well because I wasn’t sub’d to his channel but I am now. What a nice guy! Thanks for all the free patterns and tutorials you’ve shared. I’ve made so many of them. You’re really a good instructor. I’m making (at 64!) my very first cardigan from a tutorial of yours. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been crocheting almost 50 years and haven’t made a cardigan. So many, many thanks! Now- on w/the video. 😊

Again Crystal, your yarn knowledge is Amazing! I wondered if you would make a video showing how similar the two cakes are! Thank you! Again you e made my day! God Bless. Take care. Love you! 🙏😇♥️

Wow ice yarn was exactly the same color as the lion brand!!! Thanks for all this info!! Really helps us pay attention more to what we are buying!

Way to go Crystal👍🏻. Love your detective work, thanks for always sharing knowledge. Hugs🤗

I love finding yarn dupes!!

I love how helpful you are when it comes to other yarn companies, both in and out of the US.

Very cool, I have never seen one of those bonus cakes. Thanks for the heads up with ice yarns

You're one sharp woman! 😉 rocked it! The happiness you bring, in the short time I've known you here in this dimension, stupendous! A-hunting I will go! 🕵️‍♀️ 🕶

I love Ice Yarns. I order so many yarns I can’t get in the U S. They are fast too!!

Ha ha ha! No wonder I liked that Mandala yarn. I purchased it from ICE yarns. 🤦My ICE yarn was way cheaper. It came to $2.35 a cake. (Yes, it was a big order 😁) So my two pack cost me $4.70! Yippee! I'll just save my money and get a large order when the yarn is on sale. Thank you for explaining how to factor the cost per ball for ICE. I really love their cakes, Picasso yarn and Magic yarns. Blessings!

Thanks Crystal. Being in Australia I often wonder about the ice yarn equivalents, and wonder if they are the same. The small mandala balls are $10Au at our big craft store.. so I’m more keen than ever to save up for a BIG ice haul!

Super sleuth, Crystal! 🤣🤣 Thx for the inside info! 😊👍🧶

That’s awesome you found that out! Never tried Ice yarns , well I can’t say that now, bc I have used Mandala before! Thanks for informing us! We appreciate you so much !

Hi Crystal how are you doing today iam doing fine today your yarns are very beautiful colors thanks for sharing stay safe 🎉😂❤

That is so interesting thank you Crystal, stay safe love and hugs xx

It's like buying food. I worked at a potato chip factory and we made store brand chips on the same machines, with the same specs, as name brand chips. Just because it's a different label doesn't mean it's a different product.

Yes, I love that Ice Yarns manufactures yarns for other companies. I haven't ordered from Ice Yarns for a while but I really like their yarn & if I buy quite a bit of it the shipping isn't as bad. 🥰 Blessings from South Australia💕🐨

Lol, now I need to checkout Walmart because I paid more, and had to wait longer by buying it from Joanns online. I love when you do these videos. Thank you 😊

Just finished a throw with 2 bonus bundles of the Mandala color centaur and used the Suzette stitch. Came out nice ✌️❤️🧶

Thanks Crystal.for the heads up. That's interesting. Take care.

Thank you Crystal for the information! It was very interesting. God bless you!

I used to have a fairly big (very big lol) stash which 90% was from Ice yarns, I sorted my stash and donated a heap to different charities....I've since been working just from my stash the last 2 years but I'm now running low on my sock yarn .....I went straight back to Ice yarns they have some new (to me) sock yarn, u recently received some of the silk sock yarn, wow that is so beautiful to knit with it's a bit more expensive than some of the others from ice ...I did buy a few packs of different sock yarns to try, ....I did the total cost divided by how many balls I received....mine worked out around $7 Australia per ball which is amazing....I always have yarn left over from a pair of socks which I use for baby/toddler socks or scrappy socks etc I did go order some more in other colours to stock my sock yarn container I live way to far from a shop with any yarn plus I don't like to pay over $20 aud for basic sock yarn, when I know I can buy beautiful silk or hand dyed for far less even with the high cost of shipping to Australia ....sorry this is so long I hope it helps someone from Australia think past the high shipping costs the yarn comes quiet quickly :)

Crystal you are so awesome thanks for sharing the beautiful colors of yarn review and comparison wow. Have a great day and week.

Hi Crystal I hope you're having a wonderful Monday? No I am having a wonderful Monday!❤ I cannot wait to see this yarn comparison video and what I'm going to find out! Great work Crystal!

A majority of big box yarn comes from Turkey at the moment and yes different companies just use the same yarn but label as their own. Even yarn companies themselves will label some of their yarn “baby” but the adult version is exactly the same maybe in different colours

Thank You Crystal for the information 👍.

Thank you for teaching us so much Crystal

That is awesome that you caught that. Great to hear about this. Thank you 🙏🏾

Thanks, Crystal. It's great to know the better deal.❤

Thank you so much for always working so hard to share the best deals!

Hello friend! I hear ya 2021! I never know what day year time it us 😁another great video thanks

No, I don’t want to go back to 2021 Crystal !! 😅 I do the same thing..just this morning , I kept typing 2022 ugh.. I love that Mandala cake ..so pretty ❤

That's pretty cool on those yarns!!! Always good to know!! Thank you for sharing this!!! I always enjoy your videos!! Have a wonderful night!!!!

I have ordered from Ice, but I think I'll stick with the USA stores. You totally made up my mind. Thank you Crystal.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and easily spotting this.

I have never seen a Mandala bonus bundle. It makes sense that manufacturer put out the same yarn with different labels.

Thank you for the info, beautiful yarns.

Hi Crystal 👋 The yarns are identical lol Now... how to get another company to make Ice's Picasso lol. The mandala cakes are super pretty ! Thanks for sharing! Be well ! 🦋

But the striping would be much bigger with the Mandala then the Ice yarn. So it would also depend on your project and what you are looking for. Beautiful yarn!!! The yellow is my favorite.

last time I ordered Ice from the US there was a trick to their shipping. the shipping was in blocks. I could get 6 packs of their yarn for the same shipping cost and stay in that lower block. So the cost to ship 6 packs is the same as shipping 1 pack. Makes it a much better deal.

Great video. I had to laugh, I was listening to your video with earbuds, and I thought my dog was barking 😂😂

Excellent info! Thanks Crystal 🙂

Thanks Crystal for your expalanation

Wow! Joanns charges 19.99 for Mandala at our store. That’s for the regular size too.

Hey Crystal! You are the best and thank you for another helpful tip ❤

First time seeing this. Thanks for the info Crystal.

Thank you for the info Crystal. You are always such a big help to us❣❣

I'm currently waiting on my 3rd Ice Yarn delivery. I tend to buy yarns there that I can't find here in the US. Color differences mainly. I have loved everything I have gotten. Thanks Crystal, I wouldn't have known about Ice Yarn without you. As for colors that most stores carry, I go for best price. As always, love the video 💜

We have a beagle who barks ALL the time, squirrels 🐿️, people, 🍃 leaves, anything.

I bought a bonus cake I liked at Joann with a 50% off coupon. I plan on making a baby blanket. When AC Moore was “alive” they would have the mill ends yarn. One brand was from Canada. Bernat or Caron were in those bags. The yarn from Turkey could be ANYTHING! I would buy the stuff I could feel was def wool (with a coupon so I paid maybe $3.50) and go home and start googling. I would sell the mill ends on eBay once I knew the brand. I once found a yarn that sells for $35 a skein that was the same as what I was looking at! I sold it on eBay for $35 for the pound and gave someone a huge deal. I also made a nice amount on it. Win win. Unfortunately Michaels and Joann stopped selling mill ends bags of yarn.

Thankx Crystal. I haven't bought yarn for a minute but I think ice is my next order! 💚💜💚💜💚💜

I absolutely love having options so seeing the same yarn in more than one place makes me happy. Thank you for your tidbits of information that help me make educated decisions 👋💙

At the end of the day, it sounds like it's about the same cost. The major difference would probably be how fast you can get the yarn. Running over to the store vs waiting for the shipment.

Thank you Crystal. Great information to keep in mind.

Same with the Hobbii yarns, they just take them from somewhere and slap their own label onto it and tripple the price. I mean, look at Metallico vs. Gazzal Rock N Roll, or Wheel of Alpaca vs. YarnArt Flowers Alpaca. Same exact colors, same quality. Generally they take a lot from YarnArt.

Beautiful colors. Love the mandalas

Yep probably the same factory, probably the same line.. I used to work in a cake factory. We made cakes for 3 different retailers. And literally, the only thing that we changed was the packaging and labels. The cakes were all made on the same line.

I just saw a rainbow Ice yarn identical to one I got from Hobbii. At some point I would like to try an order from Ice, but I have to use up more of my stash and save up to get a big order all at once.

I have always wondered about Ice Yarns if they make it for other companies as well. Great video, and very informative.

Now, just figure out who made Yarn Bee's Lollipop cakes .... I'm so sad Hobby Lobby discontinued it. But it came from somewhere. I Love that roving yarn! Made the best shawls!

I had to pay $70 for duty and taxes to get it shipped to Canada. Still was cheaper.

Thanks for sharing this information!

I finally bought a few Mandala yarn 3ply I was disappointed is was soooo cheap. I bought it because I've heard so many people like it. I can't bring myself to buy it again

Thank you for the comparison. Learned something today.😊

Hi Crystal. I think you'll find that Ice yarns are the 'own brand' of the manufacturer and they whack different labels on it for wool Merchants who generally used to be manufacturer's. Here in the UK there are lots of cross-overs but usually there is a tweak to the fibre content, the twist, the shape of the skeins etc. I very much enjoyed your video today. Keep up the great work ❤

I love you finding these things. I was noticing some similarities, but seeing your reviews is so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Hope you have a beautiful day today ❤

I have had a yarn in the United States to be out of stock but have found a similar yarn on ice yarns. I could finish my project and not have to wait who knows how long for it to be back in stock.

Thank you for sharing. Nice

Thanks Crystal!

Good information, thanks. I hate paying for S & H.

Thanks for sharing 🙂

I been buying alot of Mandala bonus bundles lately I love them Been buying from both JoAnnes and Lion Brand Wait to see when on sale One now is 10.99

Love your channel,relearning to crochet again after a car accident broke my hand

A lot of people refuse to believe this but it is the same with food. Not all foods but a lot of foods are canned in the same facilities and they have a multitude of labels that are slapped onto those cans to go to numerous different stores. You can be paying double for the same thing if you would buy it in the store brand and be getting the same exact quality.

Yep, Crystal, no surprise there with the yarn being the same. Good review by the way! I just wanted to share a bit of my experience with Ice-Yarns shipments, since I am not in the U.S. I live in Israel. We are limited to a maximum of $75 worth of goods per shipment, or we pay huge amounts of taxes and customs. (Luckily, this excludes shipping, which is higher for us than the rates to the U.S., which makes zero sense, because we are only a 2.5 hrs flight away!!!) Anyway, in $75 I usually manage to get about 6 to 8 packs of yarn and sometimes 1-2 more, if they have a good sale going. My packages usually weigh around 8-9 Ibs. I never paid more than $3.50-$4.00 per 100gr of yarn, including shipping!!! The higher level usually reached with pricier yarn!!! If you take the Mandala / Cakes DK as an example - 150g per skein (normal size) - that would come out to be $6.00 at most, per cake!!! Regular price, all year round, no favors, no coupons needed! Sometimes they even have great sales, too, so I can get it even cheaper. I'm hoping this information is helpful.

Thank you for the information, totally helpful!

Good to know. Love to use coupons too!

You are awesome Crystal 💕

Appreciate the yarn and price comparison. Sometimes Joann's has a good sale on Mandala. That's when I stock up. Placed my first Ice order which should arrive later this week! I'm pretty excited... getting Picasso Rainbow.

Yes, ICE yarns are a company which makes and supplies yarns for other companies, and those companies slip their brand on it and sell it under their name with their price. They also sell to Hobbii, premier, and many more. The price directly from the manufacturer (ICE) is always cheaper... I had a live class on my channel a while ago talking about ICE, what that company is and how to shop on their website the best way. It surprised me how many people didn't know that ICE is a factory....

I ordered two boxes waiting for them to arrive excited to see if they are the same as yours.

So happy you're talking about this Crystal, the same situation have happened to me with Bernat Coton Handicrafters 340gr and Sugar n cream cotton cone 400gr, Premier Cotton and sometimes Villages craft cotton yarn at Herschneirs.... Same yarn with different yarn....Do you know the reason they are doing this ? Have a good night

I've never seen the Mandala Bonus Bundle before! So cool! Thanks for showing them! I'm excited, as I could buy one instead of two and make a sweater without tying on! Yay!

Thank you! That's amazing! I'll check it out. When I went to ICE, and put in DK cakes, it took me to a search engine. Weird.

Hi! I went to Mrs. Baird's bakery once on a field trip. The bread went down the conveyor belt and branched off in different directions and slid into different brand bags. I was shocked. However, I am now better educated on how things really work. Same-same with yarn! 😜🧶💕