What Is Sport Knitting Yarn?
Sport weight yarn is typically used for knitting baby items, springtime sweaters, cardigans, and other thinner or lightweight items. Sport weight yarn gives a finer texture than other weights; it can be found in any store that sells yarn.
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Comparison
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Sport weight is a term used to define the thickness of a particular yarn. There are several other weights of yarn, including worsted, lace weight, bulky and DK (or double knitting) weight.
Uses
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Sport weight yarn is a good yarn for knitting thin or small items like baby sweaters, kids clothes, lightweight cardigans and hiking socks.
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Identification
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To determine if yarn is sport weight or not, wrap the yarn around a ruler; make sure each strand is just touching the one next to it. Continue wrapping until you have 1 inch. Then, count the number of wraps it took to make 1 inch. Sport weight yarn is around 12 to 14 wraps per inch.
Needles
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Sport weight yarn is typically used with smaller needles (US 4-6) to produce a fine gauge that looks almost machine knit. It can also be used to produce fine lace shawls, if knitted with larger needles (US 8 or larger.).
Definition
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Sport weight is a thickness is a weight between lace weight and worsted.
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