Tips and suggestions for yarn substitutions

BlueTanager

"Another option, which you may find more frustrating, is to take the yarn weight, gauge, and needle size from the pattern, and try to find something that is similar in your stash and swatch."

This is kind of what I have to do by default since the yarn weight is measured in a very different way in my country, so when I'm reading patterns from other countries (which means... almost always!) I more or less have an idea of what "size" yarn I'll have to use. But yeah, sometimes it is frustrating to find something similar enough, specially when people describe it as something like "Oh yes this uses a worsted weight... but more on the thin side". Then all my knowledge on converting worsted weight yarn goes out the window and I have to find new matches ;P

marie897

thank you for the pattern

zitabitang

Thank you very much!

hayden7

thank you for sharing. I’ve always had problems trying to find the same colour or type of yarn.

Emi6Emi

Thank you!

LeFayBonnie

спасибо за информацию!!!

Ollin79

Gracias por el consejo

ed112

thats pretty nice!

afterbrain

If I am working with the same material, I find meters per gram to be a good measure for how well a yarn will work in the place of another. Though I usually don't care much... as long as the needle os right, the only thing that changes is the size of the final item, and for most of my amigurumi or motifs a smaller or bigger version is ok.This only really matters for wearables, and in that case I am making a test swatch anyway (there were too many cases of miss fitting items already :( )

Restlesserin

Thanks for the tip!