[NFB-Krafters-Korner] I bought the wrong weight of yarn for the beginner loom knitting class.

[Courtney F. Smith]

The gauge of the baby set is the same as the premium round set. The baby set is for  making baby hats & baby socks. The premium round set has three different sized Looms & they are all larger than the largest loom in the baby set. I hope that makes sense.

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It sounds about as thick as Berney soft and chuncky and it works fine on all
large gage looms!

Terry


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Subject: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] I bought the wrong weight of yarn for the
beginner loom knitting class.

Hey, so I just went back to Michaels to purchase yarn and to return what I'd
purchased earlier this week. I didn't like the yarn I'd originally
purchased, which was Loops and Threads Charisma. Maybe it's just my
particular experience with acrylic yarn, but I found that both the Charisma
yarn and Red Heart's Soft yarn have a tendency to split.
Anyhow, I accidentally replaced the Charisma, which was a weight 5 yarn,
with Bernat Baby Velvit, which is a weight 4. Will this still be okay for
the class? Should I get a loom with smaller spacing than 5/8 inch? If so,
what do you guys recommend? I'm looking at KB looms on Amazon. I picked up
two loom sets from Michaels, both Loops and Threads brand, but I ended up
returning both. After calling Aira to help me figure out the C2C spacing of
the pegs for both sets, which wasn't listed anywhere on the packaging I feel
this is stupid, since we list very straight-forward sizing on packaging for
needles and crochet hooks), I returned both sets. The long looms set I got
did have 5/8 inch spacing, but a lot of the pegs had rough mold marks where
the yarn would snag badly. I know I could have probably fixed this by taking
a nail file to them, but I've heard good things about the KB looms.

So, to cut a long story short, can I still use the Bernat Baby Velvit for
the beginner loom knitting class? I really like how the yarn feels. It's so
soft. I just want to curl up under it lol. And if I do use this yarn, which
is weight 4, should I get a loom with smaller spacing, like 3/4 inch
spacing?


Thanks,
Ari
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