The Solution In the previous post, I showed how we need to find a conversion factor (CF), which is just a number that allows us to convert the weight of a ball of yarn to length — and for that we need to be able to accurately weigh something that weighs very little, in order…
Category: Yarn Management
Yarn Management
Mystery Yarns and Measuring Yardage: or, How Many Yards of This Yarn Do I Have? Part 1
The Problem How many of us have a partial ball of yarn and don’t know how many yards it is? OK, everyone put your hands down. Determining how many yards there are in a partial ball or mystery ball is one of knitting’s universal problems. There are plenty of posts out there, covering a variety…
Yarn Management
Taming Tangles: 5 Tips on How to Untangle Tangled Yarn
What is it exactly about a tangled mass of yarn that makes everyone itch to get their hands on it and start untangling? Well, maybe not everyone. Usually, the person whose yarn it is has had it up to (wherever) with the tangles. But there are those of us who can hardly keep our hands off it. …
Yarn Management
Is it Wool? Three Ways to Test for Fiber Content
All of us yarn aficionados have at some point come up against the “mystery stash” question: How do you figure out what kind of yarn is in that unlabelled ball? The definitive method looks at the microscopic structure of the fiber(s). However, most of us don’t have a microscope sitting around the house. So what…
Project Management, Yarn Management
An Easier Way to Recycle Used Yarn
Over at Knitting Daily, today’s post talks about how to “get the kinks out” of yarn after frogging a TOAD. (And if that didn’t make any sense, you may want to read about online knitting jargon here.) Actually, I think it’s more like “getting the KNITS out” — and believe me, I’ve done my share.…