I haven’t made a lot of knit tops before and the ones that I have made were smaller than this. There is more information such as price point and much more.Hi friends! This pattern has been super popular but it needed a little updating! After I posted the crocheted “Easy Blanket Sweater” pattern, I received several requests to make a knit version. Then it will show you all the closest matches.

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A new list appears of all of the yarns under the brand.It’s probably the most comprehensive yarn substitution lists I have ever seen. Find A Substitution Yarn Sub ListsĪ website by the name of Yarn Sub has detailed information on yarn substitutions. The retail price is dictated by the wholesale costs which factors in manufacturing processes and labour involved in making a product. People have a sense they are being ripped off, when in fact, it takes an average of 8 additional hours of dying, drying and packaging to make a variegated ball. This change of packaging from solid to variegated allows a retailer to put the entire brand as one price instead having the solid balls set at $5 and variegated is set to $7 for the same yardage. There is a considerable amount of extra labour involved in making variegated yarn verses the solid colour yarn. Companies package the yarn to a certain price point. The materials of the yarn can mean the difference of a yarn colour being vibrant, long lasting and can impact the retail shelf value.įor example, variegated yarn is usually less yardage per ball verses a solid colour ball in the same yarn line. Mixing the blends of yarns with animal fibers, unnatural materials or acrylic can change the look, feel and strength. Sometimes I can be cheap and expect champagne on a beer budget. The difference to you and I is the softness. There is value acrylic and premium acrylic. You Get What You Pay ForĪcrylic yarns can vary from brand to brand as well as company to company. It just means that their starting plies are much thinner if 12 plies of one yarn can equal 4 plies of another. For example, I’ve come to understand that in another country, the equivalent can be a 12 ply. Here in North America, many of us use 4 Ply Worsted by the plies can be different thicknesses. This council is about creating the standards so that yarn balls fall into a class of weight which is usually contributed by the thickness of the yarn. While most, if not all, yarn companies here in North America following the Yarn Craft Council Standards. The biggest difference between the yarns across the world is the thickness. It’s up to the retailers to stock the yarn in other countries and those locations are unknown to me. While Yarnspirations does ship beyond the Canadian and USA borders to other regions of the world, other yarn companies do not.

Most of the responders directed me to Ravelry as this information is there. The information below is information that was shared to us. Truthfully, I don’t know the answer first hand and turned to The Crochet Crowders to help us comprise a list of substitutes.

We are generally asked what the substitutions of yarn are for outside of Canada / USA for patterns and videos that we feature. Bernat Super Value Stripes What Are the Brand Equivalents?

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