1000 yards of double knit or aran wool

London_1

I have a nice pattern for a baby blanket with unicorns on that I want to knit for my great granddaughters.It gives the wool as either 1000,2000,or 3000 yards of wool My granddaughter emailed me the pattern so I'm not too sure where it came from.but in the Uk wool is sold normally by the weight 50,100 grams etc so I need to know what the weight would be for a 1000 yards of double kit wool, I am going to knit probably 6 or 8 panels with a border around each panel then sew together to make a large blanket for each of them so its going to be a fairly big project One wants pink and the other wants blue so I will have to buy two seperate lots of colours. Any one got anny idea what a normal 100 gm ball of wool is in length i would imagine as the pattern is in yards its probably an american pattern as they still use yards and feet

JackieO xx

DullGreyGuy

If you buy the wool online it will normally give both weight and length of a ball, some may give another metric like "nm" but that tends to be more commercial sales but its usable to get the length for a weight.

100g ball will vary notably in length depending on the material, for example one DK acrylic is 250m (273 yards) whereas the bamboo equiv is 190m and a mohair (though I would question if it is DK as advertised) was 440m  

London_1

DullGreyGuy said:

If you buy the wool online it will normally give both weight and length of a ball, some may give another metric like "nm" but that tends to be more commercial sales but its usable to get the length for a weight.

100g ball will vary notably in length depending on the material, for example one DK acrylic is 250m (273 yards) whereas the bamboo equiv is 190m and a mohair (though I would question if it is DK as advertised) was 440m  

thank you so perhaps 3-4 balls will do 1000 yards with some left over roughly excellent it gives me a rough idea when looking for the amount needed it also says 4.5 size long needles which I would have thought to be too large for dk wool although possibly aran perhaps. bit more serching needed I think :0 but thanks for your help 
JackieO xx

DullGreyGuy

Those are presumably US needle size?  Conversion chart below

https://sheepandstitch.com/library/knitting-needle-sizes-conversion-chart/

US goes in the opposite direction to the UK so lower numbers are smaller than larger numbers. So a US 5 is a UK 9 which is 3.75mm and most DK wools say a 4mm needle... afraid I am a weaver rather than knitter so ok on yarns but not so knowledgeable on needles. 

Katiehound

You are assuming that it's DK?

The reason I ask is that US use different terms for wool such as worsted, sport yarn
They also use different terms - so stocking stitch might be stockinette stitch.

before you even start thinking about supplies I would ask where the pattern originates- if they know 

If it is any help I have a ball of DK acrylic from Aldi (not recommended!) Weight 50g approx  length 133m

 

Marcon

If you have a look at https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/unicorn-baby-blanket-4 it gives just about everything you'd need to know about the type of wool, weight, length etc! Most online sellers of yarn seem to give a similar amount of detail e.g. https://www.lovecrafts.com/en-gb/l/yarns

I guess googling on the recommended yarn, or the name of the pattern and/or designer, might get you to the answer?