Bernat Pipsqueak 100g - Whitey White

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Find out when and how to substitute yarns for one another in a knitting or crochet project for the best results! When you’re knitting something where the finished size doesn’t matter. Making a standard scarf with a basic stitch? Go ahead and use different yarn and change the number of stitches or rows to make it the size you want.

Swatch in the same conditions as the project (for example, in the round vs. flat, and using the same stitch patterns etc. ) When you have to use very different needle sizes to meet the gauge. Even if your gauge swatch is the same, if you have had to change the needle size dramatically from the recommended size, it will probably affect the appearance of the finished object and is not likely to be a successful project.

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When you’re using the same yarn weight and a similar fiber (for example wool vs. alpaca would be ok, wool vs. cotton would be a lot different because those fibers behave a lot differently than each other).

Hopefully this helped! I’d love to hear your successful and disastrous yarn substitution stories friends!Most swatches measure the gauge over a 4 in. x 4 in. (or 10 cm x 10 cm) area but your swatch needs to be significantly bigger than that to get accurate measurements.