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[camwyn]

Two balls of wild carrot dyed Black Mesa handspun yarn arrived today. It's not bad. Hand-spun for weaving more than knitting, so the thickness varies. It's more of a brownish gold than the orange I'd hoped, but that's okay. Muted colors are good. The problem is that I don't know how many yards of yarn I have here, so I can't estimate how much of this and how much of their brownish gray I'd need to do an HEV sweater...

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[prodigal.livejournal.com]

"Maybe you'll find other yarn to knit with / Maybe Black Mesa / That was a joke / Ha Ha, Fat chance / Anyway, this scarf is great..."

[camwyn]

It'd make a better sweater or hat than a scarf. It's a little bit on the itchy side, and is probably better off not being worn next to the skin. But otherwise, yeah.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

A Crowbar Cozy, maybe? :)

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Don't they give you a yards-per-weight-unit thing on the label for their balls? That's inconvenient. Weavers need to know yardage just as badly as knitters do.

[camwyn]

'Fraid not. Believe me, I checked.

[tundra-no-caps.livejournal.com]

Look (http://warren-ellis.livejournal.com/362713.html) at the last comment on this post, after you look at this coolness.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

My mother claims yarn winding (hanks to balls) and measuring needs are why she picked out ladder-backed chairs for the dining room. Asyoucanprobablyguessbob, you take the distance between the two uprights times the number of time you can wrap the yarn around them to get the total length. This is one of those things where doing it in centimeters/meters prevents pain and arithmetical suffering. Of course, you can wind yarn with a swift instead, but you can't sit on a swift...

[almeda.livejournal.com]

If one doesn't mind rewinding again, they sell niddy-noddies of known length (usually 1 or 1.5 yards) for the handspinning community. Then you'd have to ballwind the resulting skein again, of course, but at least you'd know exactly how long it is.

Alternatively, one could wind off, say, 2 representative yards or so (made tougher because of the thickness-variation), and weigh them on a nice sensitive kitchen or postal scale, then multiply and fudge?