Rhinebeck is this weekend, I can feel the shopping fever mounting!I get asked”

how much fiber should I buy?” in the majority of my spinning classes. The urgency ramps up when I’m teaching at a fiber program or there’s a big program coming up.Do you understand what you’re going to buy yet? I usually make a shopping map.Here are my quick and filthy shopping amounts for business fiber:4 oz– socks, hats, small cowls 8 oz– infinity

• scarves, big cowls
• , little shawls 12oz– huge shawls
• , vests 16oz-32oz+– sweatshirts. I
• make an x-large sweatshirt; I constantly purchase 2 pounds.Here are a few of the things that alter my fiber buying amounts: The size of the garment I’m knitting. If you are buying to spin to commercial job,

  make sure to read it for size, ease and yarn amounts. Now I’m knitting a sweatshirt that calls for 16 ″ of ease in my size. I would require more than 2 pounds of fiber for that.The fiber I’m purchasing. BFL weighs far more than Merino. Please don’t ask me the number of times that reality needed to bite me in the butt before I starting purchasing more of much heavier fibers when replacing for a pattern.The type of yarn I wish to spin. How you prepare( worsted usages more than woolen ), the variety of plies(more plies, more fiber), the amount of twist (more twist, more fiber), and the stitch patterns you use(hello attractive, fiber-eating, cables ), all add to the grist of yarn and need to be thought about when shopping.How much tasting I desire to do. I might utilize 1/2 -1 ounce if I’m quite sure of the yarn I wish to make. 1-2 ounces if I wish to play with draft and yarn structure. If I am going to sample controling color in a braid

  , I will purchase an entire additional braid to just play and sample.My shortest answer to’how much? ‘is, more than you believe you require. I have actually never ever understood a spinner to grumble about having excessive fiber.Have fun at Rhinebeck! I’ll be watching all the handknits and fiber shopping on Instagram.