Jennie Howes - handspun yarns
More colours to play with...
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The galleries below might look a bit jumbled up, but there is a method applied! The yarns are almost all in 100 grams hanks, shown in order of meterage per hank, starting with the thickest single ply yarns, moving to the finest and at the end of each gallery are the chunky two ply yarns.
If you haven't used hand spun yarns before, here's a little aid to help you decide what the equivalent commercially spun yarns might be:
The chunky 2 ply yarns are between aran and chunky weight and use between 4.5 and 6mm needles. You will need a couple of these hanks to make a hat or scarf with.
Yarns measuring between 100 and 150 metres are also about aran weight. So for example, you will need about 140 metres to make a beanie hat.
From 170 to 200 metres, you are getting into DK weight, so using about 3.75 mm needles, about 200 metres for a hat or cowl.
200 to 250 metres is more like a fine DK weight yarn and using 3.25 mm needles you will get a tam or short pair of women's socks from a hank.
250 to 300 metres is getting into lighter weight territory, say fingering weight (3mm needles or finer), so a hank will make a tam or a pair of socks. Around 1000 metres for a women's medium jumper.
Anything between 300 and 375 metres is a heavy lace weight and into shawl territory! Or fine knitted jumpers etc.
Over 375 and it is lace weight yarn suitable for fine work.
If you want to mix up colours, brilliant! A tip to choosing which ones, for the thicker yarns, make sure you choose yarns that are within about 10% of each other thickness wise and they will be fine together, so for example if you have a hank at 100 metres, it will work with other hanks between 90 and 110 metres. For finer yarns if you have a 300 metres hank then you could use down to 270 or up to 330 metres.
If you see a yarn you like but want it spun to a different thickness, please get in touch and I can do that for you.
If you want to buy any yarns, please use the contact form here to get in touch.
Also in the plan are some new designs to knit with my lovely yarns, Thank you.
The galleries below might look a bit jumbled up, but there is a method applied! The yarns are almost all in 100 grams hanks, shown in order of meterage per hank, starting with the thickest single ply yarns, moving to the finest and at the end of each gallery are the chunky two ply yarns.
If you haven't used hand spun yarns before, here's a little aid to help you decide what the equivalent commercially spun yarns might be:
The chunky 2 ply yarns are between aran and chunky weight and use between 4.5 and 6mm needles. You will need a couple of these hanks to make a hat or scarf with.
Yarns measuring between 100 and 150 metres are also about aran weight. So for example, you will need about 140 metres to make a beanie hat.
From 170 to 200 metres, you are getting into DK weight, so using about 3.75 mm needles, about 200 metres for a hat or cowl.
200 to 250 metres is more like a fine DK weight yarn and using 3.25 mm needles you will get a tam or short pair of women's socks from a hank.
250 to 300 metres is getting into lighter weight territory, say fingering weight (3mm needles or finer), so a hank will make a tam or a pair of socks. Around 1000 metres for a women's medium jumper.
Anything between 300 and 375 metres is a heavy lace weight and into shawl territory! Or fine knitted jumpers etc.
Over 375 and it is lace weight yarn suitable for fine work.
If you want to mix up colours, brilliant! A tip to choosing which ones, for the thicker yarns, make sure you choose yarns that are within about 10% of each other thickness wise and they will be fine together, so for example if you have a hank at 100 metres, it will work with other hanks between 90 and 110 metres. For finer yarns if you have a 300 metres hank then you could use down to 270 or up to 330 metres.
If you see a yarn you like but want it spun to a different thickness, please get in touch and I can do that for you.
If you want to buy any yarns, please use the contact form here to get in touch.
Also in the plan are some new designs to knit with my lovely yarns, Thank you.
The naturals! Chunky yarns at the beginning of this section!
Here's the second batch! All greens and blues (and a few purples) to remind us of the spring and sunny skies just around the corner! As with the yarns above, most skeins are 100 grams and if there are 200 metres or more on a skein, I'm happy to split down to 50 grams if you buy two or more. Enjoy!