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4/12/2004 5:04:41 PM
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Sandra D
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After reading ecasey`s Araucania Alert! post I got out my unused raspberry hanks and weighed them. I ordered 5 hanks and came up with this result: one was 104, three were 102 and one was 86 grams, for a net shortage of 4 grams. I also did a rough yardage calcultion of the 86 gram hank: unfolded it, counted the strands on one half of the hank, and multiplied by 2, and came up with 74 yards. Ann, I`m wondering if you were planning on re-stocking any of the Araucania that is out(I have a special interest in the raspberry :=)!).
Bets: I think I know the pattern in the spring Knitters that you are using for the Araucania. Is it the v-neck cardigan with the tie closure and 3/4 length sleeves? (I don`t know the specific name, just saw it when browsing at the bookstore). I do think it would be perfect for this yarn. Maybe you`ll have enough because the body is done in one piece (save on seaming) and could make the sleeves shorter. Let me know if you end up with enough--I`m interested in this pattern as well for my 5 hanks of Araucania!
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4/12/2004 6:10:02 PM
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bets
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Hi!
I`m almost done with one ball-I think I`m going to get 4-5" out of one, so I must troll for more, because this isn`t going to cut it. It sounds like we are both eyeballing the same garment. If I make it for me, I WANT 3/4 length sleeves...I was looking to see who else carried this yarn. At this stage, I can still work in a different dyelot fairly easily.
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4/12/2004 6:47:54 PM
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Sandra D
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Bets,
Are you doing the purl ladder detail on the fronts and the sleeves? I was thinking if I cut that out it would save on yardage. Isn`t it convenient that there already is variation in the yarn; should make a different dyelot less conspicuous. Of course if I had seen this pattern BEFORE ordering I would definitely have ordered 6 skeins!
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4/12/2004 8:54:38 PM
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ecasey
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Well, I`m glad to see that
A) I was right about the yardage being irregular, and I`m not mad,
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B) One of us managed to catch it - even if it`s a little late - it could have been even later, and it could have been a lot harder to get a hold of the stuff!
Just think if we were all still believing that it was 165 yards per hank, before the original recount! That last hank you measured was less than HALF of the stipulated length Sandra - isn`t that insane??
Eileen.
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the STARS!" (Oscar Wilde)
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4/12/2004 9:04:45 PM
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I think that when manufacturers measure yarn, they do it under some tension, so it is probably going to be "shorter" than labelled the way we would measure it.
The problem with weighing yarn is that while variations between skeins such as Sandra discovered are meaningful and good to know about, it is hard to say that the weight is wrong unless you are weighing the yarn at the same relative humidity that it was originally weighed at. For cotton it may matter less, but wool can really vary - that is, MacChick could have a ball of yarn out there in the desert that weighed exactly 3.75 oz when it left the manufaturer, and my Mom in the middle of her swamp could have the next ball that came off the production line and also weighed 3.75 oz at that time, and the weight Mom would get and the weight MacChick would get would be very different (Don`t mean to take your name in vain here, but you are the only person I know who admits to living in a desert!)
I think one of the new baseball stadiums made a big deal the first year they opened about keeping the balls in a humidor...
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4/13/2004 3:43:25 AM
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bets
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Hi!
No, I wasn`t going to do the ladders, I figured I`d throw in a cable twist every 16 rows because I thought the boxy little ladder was not all that inspiring.
I found something else I need it for- I need some antique pink too! Gar!
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4/13/2004 9:01:11 PM
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Sandra D
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Also, maybe the thin & thick variance of the yarn may also have something to do with the weight of the hank varying? Perhaps you get a lighter skein if your hank has more thin parts of yarn in it.
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