Just ordered the kit and refill , I have been binged watching your blogs for the last 2 weeks, I love how you and your fiancé do this together. My husband used to help me also but passed away in a car accident in April. We were married 23 years and have 3 beautiful kids together. Watching the two of you do markets and work together reminds me of my husband and I.
Sport weight is a size 2 yarn. Size actually has nothing to do with the number of plies, but the total thickness of the strand. Size 0-is lace weight Size 1-fingering weight Size 2-sport weight Size 3-DK weight Size 4-Worsted Weight Size 5-Bulky weight And so on. Hope this helps!
You were right, that sport weight yarn is a size 2. Some size three will fit in that needle but some do not. Size 4 yarn is way too big for that needle and muslin. Red heart yarn is a size 4 if that helps. Thank for a very informative video!
What is the best way to fix it when u accidentally punch where u have already been and it pushes the previous yarn out further on the front side. I have just been clipping that loop flush with the others on the front when that happens…not sure if that’s correct or not.
Sooo as a self proclaimed yarn addict I'm going to try and shed some light on the yarn sizing. TLDR Version: The Brava Sport is a Sport Weight/Size 2 yarn and a 4 ply. Using US terms cause it does vary. Details cause I can't help it: The Weight/Size has to do with how thick the yarn is on average and is determined using "wraps per inch". If you ever have some unlabeled yarn and want to determine it's weight/size you can wrap it around a ruler and count how many strands fit in a 1 inch space (you don't want to pull this tight you just want it to lay comfortably around the ruler with no empty space between) Sport weight yarn will have 12-18 wraps (you can find a chart on the craft yarn council's web site) The ply is a construction term. This means that the yarn is made up of 4 individual strands twisted together, you can get a variety of different constructions in sport weight, single ply, 2 ply, 3ply, 4ply, chain ply, all will be the same thickness, but I would assuming not all would work well for punch needle just like they don't all work well for every knit/crochet project. My personal not experience opinion would be to try not to go lower than a 3ply as the lower the ply count the more "fragile" the yarn would be and since most tufted items are hard wearing I would expect it would become problematic. It's also worth noting that the Brava is a 100% acrylic yarn which has some solid properties like color fastness, washability and longevity. You will find a lot of different fiber contents if you start searching through sport weight yarns, I see no reason to stray from acrylic for punch needle, however if you want to go for it, however I'd highly suggest to make sure there is 15% or more of a fiber like acrylic or nylon as this will add strength to the fiber (for reference yarns specifically designed for making socks use 20 -15 % nylon typically or silk if you're looking at the fancier ones). Okay I'll get off the tangent now. Hope this helps someone.
@@ourcheerycorner Yes ma'am! Thank you for all the experience shared. My punch needle attempts have been... shoddy at best, but everyone of your videos tempts me to try again (maybe after market season lol)
