Crochet Magazine

Wrong Yarn Weight? NO PROBLEM!

We all know how it goes: You have more than a few skeins of yarn in your crafting space. Somehow it always turns out that the yarn you have is rarely the yarn used in a pattern you want to make. But instead of going out and purchasing more yarn, you want to use some of the yarn that you have in your stash.

This means you may need to adjust the pattern. I’m going to share with you how, with a little bit of swatching and simple math, you can make your hat in that stash yarn with no problem.

Even if you are using a yarn labeled the

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