Buy more or less skeins/yarn length for a heaver weight of yarn?

If you are making a lace scarf and the pattern calls for fingering weight yarn (425 yards) but you wanted to use DK weight, would you buy more or less yarn / yardage of the DK weight yarn? The size of the scarf would be the same, so I would use fewer stitches.

Many thanks in advance!

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The heavier the yarn weight the fewer yards you’ll need to make the same size scarf. Here’s a table that gives examples of yardage.


Fingering would be weight #1 and DK #3.

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