Tag: yarn substitution
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What on earth is sport weight yarn, and what the heck should I knit with it?
In the last few years, there’s one type of yarn that’s been popping up more and more, and which, I’ll admit, baffled the crap out of me at first. And that, as you may expect, is a sport weight. But from my initial position of bafflement and “well, that just seems a bit pointless” I…
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The Woolly Badger guide to yarn substitution
There’s been a lot of talk in the online knitting community over the past few days about how to make sure that knitting is financially accessible for as many people as possible. As a large part of that responsibility rests with designers, and the yarns we choose to use, I wanted to lay out my…