Digital Precision Yarn & Kitchen Scale (0.1g / 1g)
Essential for weighing leftover yarn balls, calibrating yardage, and dividing skeins for sleeves.
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Yarn Stash / Remaining Yarn Calculator
Weigh your partial skein, enter the full skein's weight and yardage from the label, and this calculator estimates how much yardage is actually left.
Yarn labels list total weight and yardage for a full, unused skein, but once you've used part of a skein there's no way to read off the remaining yardage directly. The most reliable way to estimate what's left is to weigh the remaining yarn, since yardage and weight scale together for a consistent yarn.
This calculator compares your partial skein's current weight to the full skein's original weight, then applies that same ratio to the full skein's yardage to estimate how much length remains. All you need is a kitchen or postal scale.
Worked example: a 100g/220yd skein that now weighs 50g has roughly 110 yards remaining - 50% of the original weight and yardage.
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Do I need to remove the label or ball band to weigh yarn accurately?
Yes, weigh just the yarn itself. Ball bands and paper labels have their own weight that will throw off the estimate.
Does this work if I don't know the original full skein weight?
You need the full skein's original weight and yardage from the label (or a matching skein from the same dye lot) as a reference point - the calculation is a direct ratio against those two numbers.
Is this estimate exact enough to plan a second project?
It's a reliable estimate for planning purposes, generally accurate to within a few percent, since yarn weight and yardage scale proportionally for a consistent fiber and spin.
What if my yarn has been wound into a cake or ball and I don't know the original yardage?
Check the original label if you still have it, or look up the yarn by name and weight online - most commercial yarns publish a standard yards-per-skein figure.