This is a starting point, not a promise.Knit a swatch before you commit the whole sweater.
Substitutes for Yarns On Shannon Avenue Baby Suri Silk Brushed
- weight
- lace
- thickness
- 600 m per 100 g
- put-up
- 25 g
- fibre
- 74% Suri Alpaca, 26% Silk
- in Australia
- listed by 1 Australian shop we track
closest first
lace
· 600 m/100g
· 25g
· 74% Suri Alpaca, 26% Silk
- nothing we can measure would feel different
lace
· 600 m/100g
· 50g
· 74% Suri Alpaca, 26% Silk
- sold in 50g put-ups, not 25g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
lace
· 600 m/100g
· 50g
· 74% Suri Alpaca, 26% Silk
- sold in 50g put-ups, not 25g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
lace
· 600 m/100g
· 50g
· 74% Suri Alpaca, 26% Silk
- sold in 50g put-ups, not 25g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
lace
· 600 m/100g
· 50g
· 74% Suri Alpaca, 26% Silk
- sold in 50g put-ups, not 25g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
lace
· 600 m/100g
· 25g
· 74% Suri Alpaca, 26% Silk
- plied construction rather than brushed
lace
· 600 m/100g
· 50g
· 75% Suri Alpaca, 25% Silk
- sold in 50g put-ups, not 25g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
lace
· 600 m/100g
· 25g
· 63% Alpaca, 26% Silk, 11% Yak
- crisper, with less halo
- more matte
lace
· 640 m/100g
· 25g
· 50% Alpaca, 25% Wool, 15% Silk, 10% Cashmere
- crisper, with less halo
- springier
- stiffer, holding its shape more
- more matte
lace
· 600 m/100g
· 25g
· 100% Cashmere
- springier
- stiffer, holding its shape more
- less hard-wearing
- more matte
lace
· 580 m/100g
· 50g
· 70% Cashmere, 30% Merino
- crisper, with less halo
- springier
- stiffer, holding its shape more
- less hard-wearing
- more matte
- sold in 50g put-ups, not 25g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
lace
· 848 m/100g
· 25g
· 69% Suri Alpaca, 31% Silk
- thinner: 848 m/100g against 600 -- expect a 41% difference in yardage needed
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.