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What you should know about Michelle Nguyen [ Red Heart Cutie Pie Yarn The very first thing that ran through my mind when I opened Red Heart’s Cutie Pie yarn was ‘omg soft.’ It wasn’t in a clear enunciated way either; it was in that muffled way that only truly soft yarn would be able to invoke. The texture of this yarn takes a couple minutes to adjust to. When you’re feeling it all wound up in the ball it's very soft. When you go to cast on it’s still soft, but the texture likes to hang onto the needles a little bit. The very first time I cast on was with bamboo needles, but the stitches weren’t sliding particularly we