Yarn!

What’s Lace Weight Yarn?

Lace weight yarn is a group of the lightest/thinnest yarns. Lace weight yarns are popular for knitting or crocheting beautiful lace shawls or holding together with other yarn to obtain effects like glitter, fluff, or adding color. Yarn weights are divided into groups to make it easier to talk about yarn. As mentioned lace is

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What’s Bulky Weight Yarn?

Bulky yarns are thick yarns that are fast and fun to work with! You can use them for knitting and crocheting all sorts of things like garments, accessories, blankets, baskets, totes, pillows, you name it 🙂 If you need a bit of inspiration I have gathered some really nice crochet and knitting kits made with

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What’s Super Bulky Yarn?

Yarns are divided into groups depending on their weight. The lightest yarns in one group, then the second lightest, etc. Super bulky yarns are a group of heavy yarns. The only category with heavier yarn is Jumbo, the jumbo yarns are so thick they could barely be called yarn. Think of those ropelike yarns used

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What’s Sport Weight Yarn

Sport yarn sounds kinda fun, don’t you think? Like it’s the yarn used for sports rather than handicrafts. And while knitting marathon as a sports event is an intriguing thought, that’s not what the name sport refers to. Instead sport weight yarn is a group of yarns in a certain thickness. The thickness of yarn

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What’s Fingering Weight Yarn?

Yarn is divided into groups depending on the thickness of the yarn, and fingering is one of these groups. Each group is called a yarn weight, referring to the thickness of the yarn rather than the actual weight.  In the fingering category, you will find thin yarns that are very popular to knit with. Due

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Working With Yarn Held Double

How to knit or crochet with yarn held double Sometimes your pattern tells you to knit or crochet with yarn held double. It’s not that obvious what that means. But don’t worry, it’s not hard at all!  All you have to do is hold TWO strands of yarn together and treat them as a single

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