Tips on figuring out how to Substitute one yarn or thread for another
July 13, 2006 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under crochet, knitting, tutorial, yarn
I’ve been getting a lot of questions from people, asking for help about how to substitute one yarn for another. They want to know if a different yarn than the one that is listed in a pattern will work or not.
Well, there are a couple of ways of figuring that out.
First one: WPI: Wraps Per Inch.
This is a weaver’s trick:
The pattern calls for one particular yarn.
But, what if someone else has a cupboard full of something else?
What will the pattern look like in one of those yarns?
Are they compatible with the pattern?
Here’s where the comparisons start:
Take a ruler, and wrap …read more
