This is a starting point, not a promise.Knit a swatch before you commit the whole sweater.
Substitutes for Knitting for Olive Merino
- weight
- fingering
- thickness
- 500 m per 100 g
- put-up
- 50 g
- fibre
- 100% Merino
- in Australia
- listed by 2 Australian shops we track
closest first
fingering
· 510 m/100g
· 100g
· 100% Merino
- sold in 100g put-ups, not 50g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
fingering
· 450 m/100g
· 50g
· 100% Merino
- thicker: 450 m/100g against 500 -- expect a 10% difference in yardage needed
fingering
· 496 m/100g
· 50g
· 100% Wool
- less soft next to skin
fingering
· 500 m/100g
· 50g
· 50% Wool, 50% Alpaca
- less springy -- it will grow and not bounce back
- drapier, hanging softer
fingering
· 498 m/100g
· 40g
· 40% Merino, 30% Cotton, 30% Brushtail Possum
- less springy -- it will grow and not bounce back
- sold in 40g put-ups, not 50g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
fingering
· 480 m/100g
· 100g
· 75% Merino, 25% Nylon
- sold in 100g put-ups, not 50g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
fingering
· 500 m/100g
· 50g
· 70% Cotton, 30% Merino
- cooler
- less springy -- it will grow and not bounce back
lace
· 550 m/100g
· 50g
· 100% Wool
- thinner: 550 m/100g against 500 -- expect a 10% difference in yardage needed
- less soft next to skin
fingering
· 400 m/100g
· 50g
· 100% Merino
- thicker: 400 m/100g against 500 -- expect a 20% difference in yardage needed
lace
· 600 m/100g
· 100g
· 100% Merino
- thinner: 600 m/100g against 500 -- expect a 20% difference in yardage needed
- sold in 100g put-ups, not 50g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
lace
· 600 m/100g
· 100g
· 100% Merino
- thinner: 600 m/100g against 500 -- expect a 20% difference in yardage needed
- sold in 100g put-ups, not 50g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
fingering
· 460 m/100g
· 100g
· 70% Merino, 30% Linen
- thicker: 460 m/100g against 500 -- expect a 8% difference in yardage needed
- cooler
- less springy -- it will grow and not bounce back
- sold in 100g put-ups, not 50g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
how this was worked out
Thickness comes from metreage per 100 g, which is a measurement. Fibre behaviour - warmth, halo, springiness, drape - is scored per fibre and blended by proportion, so a merino and a Bluefaced Leicester read as near neighbours while a merino and a cotton do not, even at the same gauge. Where a record is thin, the match is discounted rather than quietly flattered, and the gap is named above.
Yardage is always rounded up. If we ever sell you the yarn and the number is short, the extra skein is on us, from your dye lot.