i'm making a sweater for a young teen and was all set to use Noro Kureyon, but then I started thinking that this was sentencing the sweater to a terrible laundry accident. Would you knit this yarn for a 12 year old? Clearly there's no substitute for Noro, but what fun yarns are there that stand up to machine washing? I need something that will show a bit of stitch definition, please.