Solids and prints of the same yarn can have different yardage

Placeholder draft for presentation work. Codex writes the published guide from verified sources; the figures below match the placeholder records and are not yet validated for publication.

The number that moves

A skein's weight in grams stays fixed across a yarn's colorways, but its yardage often does not. Dyed and printed lines are sometimes put up in a lighter skein, sometimes in a heavier one, and the maker prints the honest figure for each. If a pattern was written for the solids skein and you buy prints, you may be buying a third less yarn than you think.

Two labels, read as printed

You cannot infer yardage from grams. You read it.

What it does to a pattern

A blanket pattern calls for 6 skeins of the solids line: 6 × 364 yd = 2,184 yd. Divided by 236 yd per prints skein that is 9.25, so 10 skeins. The yarn did not change; the put-up did.

How Skeinote handles it

Each line is its own record with its own yardage and its own checked date. When you pick a yarn in the calculator, you pick the line too, and the tool refuses to fall back to a sibling line's figure.

Before you buy

1. Find the line on the band.
2. Read the yardage for that line, not the one next to it on the shelf.
3. Work the total length from the pattern's skein count, then divide by the new line's yardage and round up.