Some of you may have already noticed that I have changed some important details of my elfyarns - I used to categorise them as fingering weight because I felt that the yardage was closer (but still exeeding) to fingering weight than laceweight. Over here in the UK there is another yarn size category called "cobweb weight" which, according to the commercial yarn size categories, is equivalent to what U.S. spinners and knitters call "laceweight". One cobweb weight skein of 25g (0.9oz) measures around 365 yds of yarn (some more ,some less), and they are usually single ply yarns. If I wanted to follow that scheme further down and take two threads of cobweb weight/laceweight yarn together I would get to what is called "4-ply weight" yarn, which indeed would fit the yarn size of my elfyarns = ~760yds/3.6oz perfectly!!

As far as I can see no other spinner/knitter/yarn seller is ever using this term of "4-ply weight", and I really wonder if people will understand what yarn size I am talking about if I categorise my elfyarns as "4-ply weight". Nevertheless, I will give it a go as I really feel that I am misleading and confusing people if I continue to make my yarns laceweight when in truth they are not.

I will place a yarn size link on my website for people to read through. It will tell them the weight-yardage-needle size relation of each category, and I will probably just put the cobweb weight and laceweight in the same pot!

If anyone has more information about this please do let me know, I am trying very hard to build a UK/US yarn-category bridge here... :o)