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Welcome to ThePaintedTiger! I hope you will be pleased with my offerings of hand dyed yarn, hand dyed rovings, and custom knit scarves. ThePaintedTiger is located in the bluffs along the Mississippi River in Iowa, USA. Our yarn is spun and dyed in the USA and is as American made as possible.
 
Please feel free to browse, read or leave some feedback, or learn about new hand dyed yarn and roving coming soon in my Blog. Thanks for coming, and I hope you will visit with me again!
 
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I've done some research around the web, and have brought you this page of links to free patterns!  Please observe the copyrights (explicit or not) of the pattern writers and use these only for your own personal use.
 
Sock Knitting Patterns
Knitting Pattern Central (tons of patterns!)
Knitty Chick (598 patterns!) Plus Leg-Warmer Patterns
 
Sock Crochet Patterns
 
Soaker Patterns
Yahoo Soakers Group (must join to read)
Curly Purly (Scroll down page)
 
Longies Patterns
Circular, on Essential Baby Forums
 
 
Layette Pattern
 
Not free, but fabulous!
Little Turtle Knits  (Soakers, Picky Pants, Flirty Skirty, Undersoaker, Longies, Ribby Wrap
 
Knitting & Crocheting with Roving Love roving, but don't spin?  Very affordable patterns for knitting or crocheting clogs, boots, rugs, purses, and stuffed animals straight from roving.
 
General Yarn Sizes and Basic Yardage Requirements 
(Slurped list, author unknown)
Laceweight (18+ wpi, 2600+ ypp)
     Necktie 2 1/4" x 40", 110 yards
     Scarf 6 1/2" x 70", 450 yards
     Shawl 42" x 56", 600 yards
Fingering weight (16 wpi, 1900-2400 ypp)
     Triangle shawl 36" x 72", 1200 yards
     Smoke ring 22" x 17", 275 yards
     Wristlets, medium size, 75-100 yards
Sport weight (14 wpi, 1200-1800 ypp)
     Scarf 4 1/2” x 80”, 250 yards
     Hat, 22”, 120 yards
Worsted Weight (12 wpi, 900-1200 ypp)
     Hat, 22”, 125 yards
     Short sleeve tee, medium, 1025 yards

50 grms will probably make you a nice pair of baby booties.
long scarf of fingering wt. took about 50 gm. on 6 mm needles.
long scarf of lace wt. took about 25 gm. on 4.5 mm needles.

4 ounces in sport-weight 2-ply will make a hat, mittens, gloves, muffatees,
socks [but not with really long legs], an average snood, slippers, or a long
skinny lacey scarf on big needles.

2 ounces will make a baby hat, baby socks, baby mittens, wrist warmers, a
headband, ear-band, fingerless mitts, fingerless gloves, a coif, sandal
socks, or ballet style slippers.

around 4 oz for socks or gloves/mittens, 8-12 ounces for scarfs or small
shawls, 1 1/2 pounds or more for sweaters.

You need between 400-450 yards of light fingering yarn for an average pair of socks. (Many of the yarns on this site are heavier fingering, so you will need less).

You can get a plain 2x2 ribbed, brimless hat out of a 200 yard worsted weight
skein.


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