Hello I’m enjoying knitting these days and i am slowly expanding my repertoire from tea cosys to scarfs blankets and nearly finishd my first jumper. Anyway a friend has donated me a bag of some hand spun wool. I think i will knit it with a second yarn thats a bit more structured.
So my question - what is the best way to see how much i have? Thank you. (The green is me trying out a second strand to see how it goes)
How lucky to be the recipient of hand spun wool and in lovely colors too. Fantastic.
If you have a kitchen scale you can measure out several yards or meters and weight that measured yarn. Then you can weigh the total yarn and estimate the total yardage.
Thats great thank you. Ill give it a go!
Your swatch is a good idea to those colour combinations. Ive been doing the same today with creams browns and green. Coincidence. I also used to have the exact same sheet/throw you have there. It was a real surprise to see a pic of it.
How do you feel about the brown with green? I’m just wondering because i liked my green and cream but not really the green and brown combo. I have a darker brown too it looked a bit too much like mint choc chip mixed with the green.
About weighing and measuring. I’ve done as salmonmac said, and it worked great. I also worked out how much a row, in my pattern, took in weight which was super useful for calculating if i would have enough for the number of rows i would need. It was surprisingly accurate.
Just remember that you’ll use up more length in yarn tails than you would if you had a full ball so allow for than in your estimations.
Oh thats so funny. I have had the throw for 30 years or more. Its been a picnic blanket a cover for a spare bed and now it livens up our bedrom.i love it. I won’t go with the green - think it will either be a narural white or maybe burnt orange if i can find a yarn i like. Much like the throw… Right Im off to get the scales and a tape measure. Thank you for your advice.
Hello @Jimbim,
The best way to measure how much handspun wool you have is to use a kitchen scale to weigh it in grams, then estimate yardage based on wraps per inch (WPI). You can wrap the yarn around a ruler to find its WPI, then compare it to standard yarn weight charts to estimate how many yards per 100g your yarn yields. This gives you a solid idea of how much you can knit with.
Best Regards,
Amy Cross
