Menottering; And Fading

The year has all but been and gone... and next week is the Final Friday of not just the month but of 2023... worth producing a post about? I hope that one or two of you at least will still join me in my regular monthly meme post and the last use of this particular 'badge'. I have a brand new one to reveal for 2024! In the meantime, I hope your festive week is shaping up nicely...

Now, yesterday I mentioned some discoveries in relation to working yarns... I admit to being a tad mystified as there has been a change wrought upon the naming of yarns that seemed to take place in stealth. It is likely a lot of you reading this who are yarn-ducks like me, will already be aware of these things. In case not, though, I thought you might also appreciate these charts. 

I wish I could recall where I found the yardage chart... but anyway, it is useful for planning yarn purchases or deciding what one has in stash might be useful for. The blue metre figures have been calculated and added by yours truly. The second chart adds dimension to understanding;

This was the one I really wanted! Now, I am grasping the numbering system and the different terminology between the UK and the USA. I am grateful to The Orry Mill for this conversion grid.

Finally, a spanner was thrown in just as I was coming to terms with the above when the Drops yarns arrived and had categories based on letters instead! Apparently, this is a thing, and so am grateful for the following;

All good fun, eh what?! Anyhoo, onward into the festive weekend. A reminder that there will be no Saturday posts whilst we get through the next two - and possibly not in January either, depending on how I go.