How much yarn do I need

Stitches and rows from your gauge

Count the stitches and rows in 10 cm on a washed swatch — we will tell you how many stitches to cast on for the width you need and how many rows to knit for the length.

Adapt a pattern to your gauge

Substitute the yarn in a pattern

The pattern says how many grams of its yarn you need. Your yarn is different, so we go by length: you will use the same number of metres.

Yarn held double and more

When you hold several strands together — say, kid mohair with merino — the combined yarn has less length per weight than each strand: 1 / M = 1 / M₁ + 1 / M₂ + …