What WRAPS PER INCH (WPI) tells you about your yarn...🧶
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2024
- Today we're taking a deep dive into the 'wraps per inch' measurement as it relates to yarn and discussing how this can be used to help substitute yarns in knitting patterns. This is a DEEP DIVE and not a 'cut-to-the-chase' video. If you're not into deep dives or are short on time, plan on watching this one in parts or skip it altogether. For everyone else, get comfy and let's chat.
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As a weaver, I have done wraps per inch with a ruler for many, many years. The key is to wrap over a larger span (two inches or more) and then just count a one inch section. That eliminates the worry about the edges sliding around, as you won't be counting those. To be even more precise, wrap a few inches, count just a two inch section and divide by two.
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That solves the mystery I've been wondering about for years. So thank you very much! I appreciate your efforts and it's nice to see you having so much fun with these types of videos!🧶
I think the little groove on the bottom of the gauge is where you attach your yarn when you begin to wrap for the gauge...😊
This video has convinced me to start swatching…and to buy one of those combo gauge tools
Very interesting! I never thought about checking what wraps per inch the yarn I’m planning on substituting is. That’s definitely very helpful.
Thank you!
As a person with a yarn stash which has gifted yarns from friends and family, this is for me.
Love this! Last year, I needed to use several different types of yarn to get my color scheme, but needed all sport weight so the gauges of the patterns would work together. I used WPI to find three different yarn types so I could have all 12 colors and patterns. WPI is a great tool to have in the box.
Your experiment is very useful. I learned a lot. Thank you!
This is a great demo. I think this also emphasizes the importance of swatching to get the fabric you want. If you want your sweater to look exactly like what is pictured use the exact same yarn weight, fiber, and vendor then swatch to get gauge. If you want to play around with it, it can be really fun to select your yarns based off the fabric qualities you desire.
One of my favorite things about your channel is how professionally your videos are! I love that the audio is in stereo, the picture is clear, you speak intentionally and with detail, and your background is a place I want to be :)
What microphone do you use, out of curiosity? It always sounds good, in headphones or just playing out of my phone!
@@beezaroni thank you so much. Truly. And I use a Blue Yeti pro. ❤️❤️
Thank you for doing this Tayler. I had the same basic questions about wraps per inch that you did when you first started researching it. It is much clearer to me now.😊
Excellent content! You are an great teacher! I really like how you go deep and carfully explain what is going on.
Thank you so much! This means a lot. ❤️
I'm using this when I unravel thrift store sweaters, to figure out the starting point for choosing the right hook size to use with that yarn.
Ah yes! That's a fantastic reason to take the WPI measurment.
as a spinner WPI is invaluable. Spinner tools have a WPI gage built in similar to that "combo gage" tool you have. All my yarn I make is mystery yarn until I do the steps you outline here.
So glad I found you! Thank you for this video!
@@cclark1273 I’m glad you found me too! Thank you for watching. ❤️
WPI and the conversion chart is essential to me to find knitting patterns for my hand-spun yarn.
Thanks for this video! I don't knit with animal fibers so I'm having a really hard time finding comparable yarn for the garments I want to make. I only started my first knitted sweater about 3 months ago, but I'm having a hard time making gauge. My first sweater is turning out to be quite oversized which is ok but I want to make more fitted garments.
Thank you for testing different methods for measuring the WPI. I tried with a ruler and a pencil and it worked not fine. I really thought I were to dumb to get it right. I think I try to make my own tool tomorrow. Have a nice weekend.
Just went through stash and did this a few weeks ago-an old fashioned wooden ruler has enough friction that you don’t have to worry about the yarn slipping (aka better tension)
Ordered ✅. Thanks for the tip!
This is so freakin USEFUL!!
I bought one of those "combo" tools years ago but could never figure out what the little "gaps" in the tool were for.
This is going to come in handy for those handful of OLD old old patterns I downloaded from Knitty years ago that were designed with long discontinued yarn.
I should be able to knit them with a comparable yarn (provided Ravelry has the original design yarn in the database).
I’m so glad you found this helpful Amy! I’m really excited to start using this little tool more often as well. ❤️
Such a great video! I do have mystery yarns in my stash so I’m excited to pick up one of these tools. My LYS has a tool that you lay the yarn in and it tells you what weight it is (similar to the back of this tool), but they’ve been out of stock for a while!
Thanks so much Tayler for an extremely useful video. Also to contributors in this comment section.
Love your vlogs. I learn so much and it’s just fun.
I'm so glad! Thank you so much for watching!
Thank you for this video. I'm now wondering how to prevent myself from buying a sweater quantity of yarn and then find out it's not the right wpi. 🤔
I'm looking forward to your video about gauge. Maybe the answer is there..
2:42 totally agree with the yarn density point. I made a bulky weight sweater from an acrylic aran yarn from stash. Worked perfectly and got gauge. I can't wait to learn more about wpi
This difference of wpi in fingering yarns causes some of my socks to be boot density, and some socks (same vanilla pattern) to be summer socks!
You can use an elastic band to stop the yarn from slipping on whatever tool you use :)
That’s a great idea!
You can absolutely wrap that yarn around anything, including a tree trunk or a cone! The only thing about an inconsistent circumference, it that your yarn may tend to slip or bunch a little. Otherwise, it's simply the yarn strands lined up next to each other and the circumference doesn't matter.
Thank you - that was useful information I am going to be able to use
In the UK we have different weights of wool. We don't have bulky for instance. It can be quite difficult getting a tool that has UK yarn weights on it. Something to bear in mind if you're in the UK.
Great content and links provided - many thanks 🙏
I like using WPI as a method of figuring out weights of yarn, but I imagine that little gauge instrument you used would be more accurate than eg a pencil (as I use) primarily because, in addition to keeping the yarn secure whilst wrapping, it is a very specific length due to the edges on the tool vs estimating the inch length on a pencil or even a ruler. Think I'd like to get one of those little gauge thingys. Also seems that the listed WPI on a pattern would be more useful when it comes to choosing a yarn substitute, rather than relying on it saying DK or whatever. Having WPI on a yarn label would be extremely useful (maybe it is on some, I don't know. I don't have any new bought yarn as my yarn is inherited hence few or no labels) because it would take a lot of the guesswork out, especially as many of us are not in a position to test WPI of a yarn of interest for a project (due to buying online etc). Of course, pairing yarns is a whole other thing, as you found out in your scientific experiment! 😁
Any body else singing "A surrey with the fringe on top?" I have a tool around here somewhere, but usually use a little 3 inch ruler. It is easier to control than the longer ones.
I did!
Super interesting! That tool is super cool but unfortunately not available in Canada right now. My thought is that since lace is so fine I really wonder if holding it with aran actually = bulky? I think I knit a bit tighter then most and doubt I would be able to achieve that. I know gauge plays a huge role but by the time I used a big enough needle to get that gauge the resulting fabric would be too loose. Does that even make sense 🤷🏻♀️. How can 11 be both DK and worsted?
So, if more wraps means denser and less wraps is a lighter density, how does that affect gauge and the ability to substitute yarns?
If you use the ruler, and take your yarn tail through the hole at the end, and even use a piece of tape, that might validate the ruler as an acceptable tool.
Great point Kara!
I think that Knitting For Olive (might be remembering wrong)says that adding their silk mohair to another yarn doesn’t change the weight category of the base yarn. Idk. I haven’t tried it. But I did hear someone say that.
Interesting experiments. Thank you.
Use a small piece of masking tape to anchor your yarn at the start on you WPI gage.
I noticed myself, when ppl say use 2 strands of sock.. It's dk they say lol however I find it to be closer to a light worsted. The fabric is sooo much thicker when double strands are held.
Don't you think that sometimes the wraps per inch could change if let's say the yarn was wrapped in a tighter ball or left in a skein? Sometimes I think yarn loses its elasticity when tightly rolled into a ball. Just a thought
As a designer does Ravelry ask you to enter the WPI or is it just giving an average cyc number? I have to wonder if those for the combo yarns are even accurate or average.
Do you can add your own WPI, but it also has a standard wpi option as well. Hard to know which is being used. If you look at the yarn page specifically, that wpi info would be the most accurate.
Thanks.
Just a point about the alpaca /mohair comparison…. Don’t you think it’s a case of how thick it’s spun? I have some super fine mohair and some DK weight 100% mohair yarn. I have alpaca fibre (both types) that I can spin as thick or thin as I want. We have to take each yarn individually.
Yes! Absolutely. However most suri or mohair yarns on the market now, commonly sold by dyers and other yarn retailers, are most often offered as a lace-weight or in the case of the alpaca, a light fingering weight yarn and used most often as pairings with other yarns for that halo. But yes. Ultimately, the weight of the yarn depends on how it’s spun.
@@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS true. It’s expensive stuff to spin thick!
It looks like when you were measuring WPI for two yarns held together, you made sure the two strands lay side-by-side on the tool. I'm not sure that's valid, at least mathematically. In a garment, the strands won't lie side-by-side. They'll twist around each other a bit, and the overall thickness will be a little less than the sum of the thicknesses of the individual yarns.
You may be right! It’s worth testing, that’s for sure.
I’m wondering if giving the yarns a bit of a twist before measuring would help…🤔
@@WOOLNEEDLESHANDS I think it would be a reasonably close approximation. Just a pretty loose twist.
thank you so much
You're welcome! Thank YOU.
You can always make a little tool by cutting a notch out of a piece of cardboard.
I had sport weight and suri and found it fitted a worsted pattern
The tool would be better designed if you weren't wrapping the yarn over the top of the writing and could read it while the yarn was wrapped.