/fa/ - Fashion

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Cotton yarns are generally suited to warm weather, but it depends on what you're making really. A lace pattern is always going to be cooler than a turtleneck whatever yarn it's made with, but generally speaking for tops or whatever, cotton yarns work well for warmer weather.

I'm not sure how the worsting process works actually! I'd never thought much beyond what it does - the how never occurred. Might be something to research when I'm less busy!

Dk and aran weight yarn are two of the nice middling kind of yarn weights that aren't too fine to be viable for large projects but aren't so chunky they'll make clothing impractical. There's a guide here to what the different weights mean: https://www.craftyarncouncil.com/weight.html

Yarn weight is a fairly vague descriptor - I've bought fingering weight yarns from different brands in the past that are fairly different in thickness but all fall within an overall fingering category - but is useful for both telling what range you should expect the guage to fall in and what kind of bulk to expect from the finished product.
Guage/tension is pretty crucial for projects because that tells you how many stitches you should have per inch, which is what you need to know when following patterns.

To give you an idea the picture shows three different weights.

The blue is an unplied wool. I think from Lana Grossa but I can't remember now. It's chunky weight and used 10mm needles. Can't remember what the exact gauge worked out to be but it was a fairly low number of stitches per inch, probably 2.5 or so.

The multicoloured yarn is fyberspates 4ply vivacious. It's a fingering weight plied merino yarn with a fairly tight twist. It's roughly 6.5 stitches per inch and used 3.75mm needles.

The beige is lettlopi yarn, 100% Icelandic wool which hits around worsted weight. It's got a light twist, but it's quite hard to spot so it looks more like an unplied yarn. That worked out at 4 stitches per inch and used 5mm needles.