I love thinking about yarn amounts in terms of practical distance. The cardigan I'm knitting will use 1,200 yards of yarn in 10 skeins. That's the length of 12 football fields, or close to 3/4 of a mile of yarn laid straight. I also think it's funny how small it gets compressed down to when wound into a skein, so that all 10 can fit in a shopping bag. When I tell non-knitters all this it makes their heads explode














