Comments on: How Many Skeins?

By: Jamielynne Crissman

Jamielynne Crissman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:08:57 +0000

Hey, Lauri — being a new knitter, I haven’t had that problem yet, but will soon, I’m sure … have you thought of asking the big yarn stores online, like Herrschner’s or Yarn By The Bag -? If they ever carried that yarn, they could probably tell you the yardage, or if you have the fiber content & the weight on the label, you could shop for something similar (the sites list both weight and yardage –)and then plug the info for your skeins into a calculator for an estimate on your shawl project. The other thing you might try is to find something very close to your old mystery yarn but readily available, and get some of that as a cushion; depending on your pattern, you might be able to combine the two yarns in the project and have some of either or both left for your stash. I hope that makes sense, and maybe helps you work it out — good luck!

By: Lauri

Lauri — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:51:53 +0000

Thanks for your calculator. I have the opposite problem … sort-of. I have some very old skeins of yarn that only list their weight and I need to estimate how many yards are on the skeins. I want to make a shawl with them and don’t want to start the project without knowing if I think I have enough. Can you help me?

By: Millie

Millie — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:35:41 +0000

Thank you all so very much I needed help in this area very much.

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By: lucia

lucia — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:38:46 +0000

I need to download another browser. I’m on a mac and Yahoo claimed it would let me make a fug with safari 1.3.1, but they LIED!

By: La

La — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:23:07 +0000

Fantastic! Thanks Lucia. Looking forward to your fug!