ConnieLene – KnitDesigner

Standards and Guidelines for Crochet and Knitting

The publishers, fiber, needle and hook manufacturers and yarn members of the Craft Yarn Council of America have worked together to set up a series of guidelines and symbols to bring uniformity to yarn, needle and hook labeling and to patterns, whether they appear in books, magazines, leaflets or on yarn labels. Review this site as you will find it very very useful when working with patterns and using yarns from your stash or yarns that you love but are not the recommended yarn for a pattern you may be trying to work with.

The section Standard Yarn Weight System with categories of yarn and gauge ranges, along with the recommended needle and hook sizes is particularly useful to me as I use yarns from everywhere in the world where the opportunity to purchase something interesting comes up. I also try to read and understand patterns and yarn types from all over Europe (including Denmark, The Netherlands and Germany), USA, Great Britain and New Zealand.

It is a daft thing but even though I very very rarely knit from a specific pattern – I have managed to purchase patterns in Dutch, Danish and German. Why – I don’t know.