I have just downloaded some free knitting patterns from the internet, and some
of them are from America. I think I have heard somewhere that Sport Weight is
UK's Double Knitting and the tension seems to be about right, but could anyone
please tell me what Worsted Weight yarns are?
Thank you.
Hi Dee
Worsted weight is the same as Aran weight. See this chart:
http://www.yarnstandards.com/weight.html
Lindy in very wet Ireland
Subject: [lace-chat] Knitting Yarns
I have just downloaded some free knitting patterns from the internet, and
some
of them are from America. I think I
On 9/14/08 9:23 AM, Dee Palin wrote:
. . . could anyone please tell me what Worsted Weight
yarns are?
Yarns about the thickness of 4/8 worsted yarn.
4/8 worsted was so common in the first half of the twentieth
century that knitting worsted was the only label needed.
--
Joy Beeson
www.landoflincolnlacemakers.com
http://www.lacemakersofillinois.com
--- On Sun, 9/14/08, Lindy Taylour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Lindy Taylour [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Knitting Yarns
To: Dee Palin [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lace Chat Arachne
lace-chat@arachne.com
Date: Sunday, September 14, 2008, 9:30 AM
Hi