Ask The Woolery: Calculating yardage for a weaving project

Calculating the correct yardage for your weaving project can be confusing! Watch our video and learn an easy method from our Ask the Woolery team!

[@sfstucco]

In the Weft Yardage section, there are 2 errors in what is written on the board, but they wind up with the correct result. The person at the board multiplied the width in the reed (4.5 inches) by the weft sett (10 ends per inch). Your result was 450, but that is ten times greater than the correct amount! 4.5 x 10 = 45. And doesn't 45 passes per 1 inch sound more reasonable? However, she straightens it out with another error, when she multiplies the 29250 by 1.1 --- THAT should have been 32,175. However, she writes 3,217.5. Which is the answer you would have gotten if you had initially multiplied the 4.5 x 10 correctly. :)

[@Jedapoo]

+sfstucco Thank you! I broke out my calculator to appease my doubt at the 4.5 x 10 = 450 error.

[@chantalharper257]

@@Jedapoo There's another error: sett * finished width * 10% = 44 (not 44.4)

[@VOKTAA]

Is there a written version of these instructions?

[@ImGinaMarie]

Still confused

[@DarcieGlam]

Or just buy extra :-)

[@craftylady3129]

Why is she putting 1.10 for .10. She is confusing.