Working with Stash Yarns

Weaving from your stash often means dealing with mysterious characters of unknown provenance. It also means working with limited quantities, forcing you to use a variety of yarns to come up with the yardage needed for a project. You might not even know exactly how much of a yarn you’ve got, which makes it even harder to plan.

All those unknowns can lead to headaches and disappointment, so how do you set yourself up for success rather than frustration? 

By picking appropriate projects, knowing what makes yarns behave as they do, identifying your yarns and choosing ones that will play well together, and knowing how to combine things in warp and weft for best results.

Working with Stash Yarns will teach you how to

• Pick projects that are suited to a mixture of yarns, even when you don’t know exactly how those yarns will behave;
• Predict how yarns will combine based on their fiber content;
• Test yarns for warp worthiness;
• Identify the fiber content of mystery yarns;
• Calculate the amount of yarn you’ve actually got available; 
• Decide the best way to combine a variety of yarns in a single project; and more!