I am trying to figure out how many yards I need from a 50g Worsted Weight Yarn. How many yards do I need from 50g Aaron yarn? Not sure if I’m clear with my question but there’s a huge difference in yardage for Worsted weight yarn versus Aaron. Thank you.
The only way I can think of would be to cut a yard (or metre) of your yarn and weigh it, if you have scales that can accurately weigh light things. Then weigh the total amount you have left - I think you’d have to divide the weight of the ‘ball’ by the weight of the single yard you cut to get the total amount of yards. Not all yarns of the same weight will actually weigh the same. Some Aran or chunky yarns will be lighter or heavier than others of the same yardage, for example.
If you put in the exact name of your yarn on yarnsub.com I think it gives information about the weight of the ball and the length, then you can work out how many yards per gram
I have used that site to sub yarn as it gives the length for the yarn type not just the weight as its not just about if it is aran but which make of aran which changes the length.
Unless you don’t know the name of your yarn which is a possibility
I just checked on ravelry.com and its also possible to search a yarn name there and see how many yards/meters per ounces/grams there too. There is a button for yarns near the top of the page and then a search box to type the name in.
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The closest you can come is an estimate because of the variations in the yarns that are classed as Aran or worsted weight.
Otherwise Shintoga’s suggestion will give you the closest comparison to your yarn.
There is no comparison between grams and yards. Grams is how much it weighs and yards is how long it is.
Sorry
Knitcindy
It is true that you can’t say “I have 100g of aran yarn, thus I have (for example) 75 yards of yarn”, because even aran yarns will vary from each other. Each yarn is going to weigh X amount of grams per yard/metre, so if you want to find out how many yards you have of that specific yarn, weighing out a certain length of it first will tell you how much you have. But you’d have to do it again for other yarns because the grams per yard/metre would likely be different.
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