As a thrifter and "random yarn" buyer, I rarely have the yarn suggested in a pattern. Often, the suggested yarn is something a bit beyond my payscale or specific to the designers region (i.e. a common UK yarn may not be a common Canada yarn), or I may just not want to spend any more cash on yarn when I already have a room full. I have searched for advice online for substituting yarn (
this blogpost from Tumped Duck was very handy) but there are not a lot of resources that I found which actually show you how yarns compare.
Ravelry has its database of yarn in which you can manually search for a yarn with similar parameters. You select the parameters, search through each yarn and compare. This is very useful but can be time consuming.
Then I found this site:
Basically, you plug in your yarn name, and they generate a list of yarns which are comparable based on yarn weight or category, texture, fiber content, recommended needle size, gauge, ball weight, yardage/meterage, and care instructions. Crazy right?
Check this out. I entered
Loops & Threads Charisma.
And....drumroll....
Is that not awesome? This is just a sample; there were 22 on the list, each with a description of how it matched. You can search for comparable yarns that have certain parameters, such as an acrylic free version of Charisma. For more how-to on that process,
see this article. Try it out; you won't be sorry.
Happy subbing :)
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