Learn how to hold yarn double or triple, calculate combined metres per 100g, mix fine cone yarns and plan the right quantity for your knitting project.

Learn how to choose deadstock cone yarn by fibre, metres per 100g, strand count and project type, then calculate enough yarn and test a washed swatch.

Deadstock yarn is new, unused yarn left after a mill, fashion-house or manufacturing production run. It can include surplus quantities, discontinued colours, cancelled-order material and lots that are simply too small for industrial production. For knitters, crocheters and...