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Decoding Yarn Weights

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 Picking the right yarn size can be an important step in your project process. We are getting ready for sweater weather here at The Hook and Needle Nook. We're even hosting a great sweater knit along using Kayla D. Brant's delightful Good to the Last Frost sweater pattern. We are obsessed with this pattern and the resulting sweater! In getting ready for this knit along, we have had a lot of questions on what yarn size to use, and what yarns fall into that range. These are amazing questions, and some of the finer points of yarn sizing have the most seasoned yarn crafters scratching their heads and shaking their needles or hooks (just hopefully not at the same time). As always we are here for you and happy to help in picking the right yarn size! Yarn Weight Names/Identification There are so many stores you can go in that sell yarn, and there are different ways they attempt to convey the size of the yarn and the yardage. The Craft Yarn Council has a very han