Knitting yarn

Knitting yarn Information
Category	Fluff
Class	Miscellaneous
Type	Crafting
Related Scripts	Knitting needles, Knitting Bowl
Item Restrictions	✓
PERM-ifier Eligible	✓

Verbs Used
BUNDLE MEASURE

The knitting yarn is a fluff crafting script that applies to miscellaneous items, and is part of the Knitting items family of scripts. It was originally released at Wavedancer 2005. Knitting needles use knitting yarn to create a knitted item, which includes a variety of clothing and containers. See the main knitting system article for instructions on how to knit.

Analyze

You analyze the alabaster yarn and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

This is a skein of yarn that can be used to create items using knitting needles.  It will create knitted alabaster items when completed.  There is enough alabaster yarn to knit 10 rows.

Yarn of the same type can be bundled into skeins of up to 100 rows.

You can use certain dyes to change the color, or have the yarn altered by a merchant.  Only the color and material can be changed.  You can also choose a description for the entire knitted garment, such as fluffy or soft.

Acceptable materials are: alpaca, angora, aneula, Aldoran wool, bamboo, bresuna, buckram, cameline, captiql, cavelta, chainsil, chenille, cotton, dagswain, fraelhan, flannel, flax, fleece, gossamer, heather, inytela, jute, krinklevelt, lamb's wool, lambilen, linen, maedatha, malghavan wool, merino wool, mohair, moreen, myssamere, oiremere, oxilen, paeline, pashmina, plumille, qiviut, ramie linen, roltalen, rolton wool, ruhani wool, rackhal, sailcloth, flyrsilk, lotus silk, ramie silk, raw silk, sea silk, spidersilk, starsilk, silk, stoutfoot wool, tartan, tweed, vaslavilen, vicuna, vylith, vylithen, wild silk, woolen, wool, wylten, wynelen, yierkale, and yierka wool.

Using materials outside this list will not work with dyes and may have unexpected results, or not be permifiable.

Usage Information

Verb	First	Third
BUNDLE	You unwind one skein of yarn and wrap it around the other yarn. There is enough alabaster yarn to knit 20 rows.	N/A
MEASURE	There is enough alabaster yarn to knit 10 rows.	N/A

Additional Information

Knitting yarn is part of the knitting system. Knitting yarn was first sold aboard the Wavedancer in 2005 in the Needles That Knit shop, alongside knitting needles.

Yarn for knitting projects can be purchased at the Mist Harbor shop Knit It, which sells a variety of yarn in 10 row skeins, as well as at festivals and pay events. It can also be made with an unlocked Knitting Bowl from fabric and cloth items.

Yarn skeins are a finite resource. Using MEASURE on a skein of yarn will identify how much is left with rows as the unit of measurement. Different types of knitted projects require different amounts of rows to complete them. Yarn can be hand-BUNDLEd into skeins of up to 100 rows. Yarn stored inside of a Knitting Bowl can be combined by it into bundles of up to 200 rows. Yarn can be permified so that it never runs out and can knit an unlimited amount of rows.

See the main knitting system article for instructions on how to knit.

Yarn Materials

Yarn comes made in a variety of materials. Eligible material options are included in the yarn's ANALYZE. Some materials may be considered rarer than others. When altering yarn to include a specific material, it can only be altered to those on the current list.

Acceptable materials are: alpaca, angora, aneula, Aldoran wool, bamboo, bresuna, buckram, cameline, captiql, cavelta, chainsil, chenille, cotton, dagswain, fraelhan, flannel, flax, fleece, gossamer, heather, inytela, jute, krinklevelt, lamb's wool, lambilen, linen, maedatha, malghavan wool, merino wool, mohair, moreen, myssamere, oiremere, oxilen, paeline, pashmina, plumille, qiviut, ramie linen, roltalen, rolton wool, ruhani wool, rackhal, sailcloth, flyrsilk, lotus silk, ramie silk, raw silk, sea silk, spidersilk, starsilk, silk, stoutfoot wool, tartan, tweed, vaslavilen, vicuna, vylith, vylithen, wild silk, woolen, wool, wylten, wynelen, yierkale, and yierka wool.

Many of these wool types were added alongside the Roltons, Wools, and Cheese of the Land document.

A Tier 3 Knitting Bowl can make yarn of various materials out of fabric and cloth items, including into yarn from the acceptable material list.

The rare spider mount has a special ability to spin very rare knitting yarn that is not normally available for sale at festivals or events. This yarn comes in metallic-hues and can be crafted of rare fabrics, such as naiquard, rusylka, auroralaen, or veilsylk.

Yarn is not required to have a material as part of its description, such as some of the yarn sold in Knit It. This can be very useful for knitted projects involving two types of yarn.

Choosing and Modifying Yarn

Yarn has two unique fields that can be modified. Modifying them will impact the final knitted item's appearance. You can modify both fields in a variety of ways without having the yarn altered by a merchant.

The first yarn field is its appearance, which is typically made up of a color and/or material. This is a required field when altering yarn, and it is tied to how the skein of yarn is crafted, dyed, or altered if modifying your own. The color/material of the yarn will cause the final project to look like "a knitted appearance (item)". Examples of yarn material options include "tartan yarn", "lamb's wool yarn", or "sea silk yarn". Yarn is capable of taking a dye to change its color, and if it is made from a material on the acceptable materials list, that material will be preserved when dying. This can result in yarn that is "coppery tartan yarn", "pale ivory lamb's wool yarn", or "marine blue sea silk yarn". The end project may look like "a knitted marine blue sea silk hat" due to how this field is set up. This field can be set to just a color, just a material, or both.

When using multiple yarns for a project, the first yarn's color/material automatically appears first in the project's description and the second yarn added will appear second. The order of each yarn's color/material can be swapped via FLIP while the project is still in-process. If a third yarn is added, the color/material of the project changes to "multihued".

Yarn can be dyed using alchemy dye, the dyer's tent dye, or cobbling dye. When using dye from the dyer's tent on yarn, it must first be converted to alchemy dye by visiting the clerk with a bottle in hand and using ORDER BOTTLE. Dyed yarn will retain an acceptable material and any descriptor, if either or both are present. Only the color will change. Yarn that has a long description (instead of just a 15/15/15 base description) will need to be CLEANed prior to being dyed.

The second yarn field is its descriptor, which is tied to the yarn's texture or other unique qualities. Some knitting system tools refer to this descriptor as a "pronoun". This is an optional field for yarn when altering, and it can be no longer than 15 characters. The descriptor of the yarn will cause the final project to look like "a yarn descriptor knitted (yarn appearance) (item)". It always comes before the knitted item's stitch style. Yarn sold at festivals or altered by a merchant may come with the this field already set. An unlocked Knitting Bowl can also add or change this field. The bowl comes with 12 preset "pronoun" options that can be applied to yarn removed from it to change its descriptors, including as "gradient", "lustrous", and "winterweight", and up to 8 custom "pronoun" options can be added by a merchant.

The first type of yarn added to the knitting needles with any descriptor present will apply that descriptor to the final knitted item. If another yarn with a different descriptor is added to the project, it will not change the current descriptor. If all yarn used in a project is without a set descriptor, no descriptor is added to the final knitted item before its stitch style.

Use ANALYZE to confirm how a skein of knitting yarn is set up. The appearance and descriptor fields are highlighted in monsterbold. If a descriptor is not set, there will only be one section in monsterbold, which is the yarn's appearance.

Displaying the yarn appearance only:

You analyze the alabaster yarn and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

This is a skein of yarn that can be used to create items using knitting needles.  It will create knitted alabaster items when completed.  There is enough alabaster yarn to knit 10 rows.


You analyze the cream angora yarn and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

This is a skein of yarn that can be used to create items using knitting needles.  It will create knitted cream angora items when completed.  There is enough cream angora yarn to knit an unlimited number of garments.

Displaying the yarn descriptor and appearance:

You analyze the royal blue silk yarn and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

This is a skein of yarn that can be used to create items using knitting needles.  It will create lustrous knitted royal blue silk items when completed.  There is enough lustrous royal blue silk yarn to knit 63 rows.


You analyze the crimson wylten yarn and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

This is a skein of yarn that can be used to create items using knitting needles.  It will create sable-banded knitted crimson wylten items when completed.  There is enough sable-banded crimson wylten yarn to knit an unlimited number of garments.

Yarn is a finite resource. Each skein of yarn can only accommodate a set number of rows in a project. MEASURE shows how much yarn is left in a skein in hand. Once a project has been started on a pair of knitting needles, you can see how much yarn is left on the needles with LOOK NEEDLES. If you run out of yarn before the project is finished, you will need to add more yarn to complete it. The patterns list outlines how many rows are needed to complete each pattern.

Yarn can be permified so that it never runs out and can knit an unlimited amount of rows. Permified yarn can be dyed repeatedly, maintaining its material, if one is present and on the acceptable material list.

Yarn can also be altered by a merchant.

Yarn Update

GM Vanah made a major update to knitting yarn in February 2022. Yarn created prior to this update is on an older system but it can be converted to the new system by simply PUSHing the older yarn onto a pair of knitting needles. This update brought a reduction in roundtime for knitting projects and the removal of roundtime for PULLing yarn off of the needles to make the conversion process easier.

Older yarn must be converted to work with the newer knitting system components, such as the Knitting Bowl or being able to be bundled.

Restrictions

You can use certain dyes to change the color, or have the yarn altered by a merchant. Only the color and material can be changed. You can also choose a description for the entire knitted garment, such as fluffy or soft.

Acceptable materials are: alpaca, angora, aneula, Aldoran wool, bamboo, bresuna, buckram, cameline, captiql, cavelta, chainsil, chenille, cotton, dagswain, fraelhan, flannel, flax, fleece, gossamer, heather, inytela, jute, krinklevelt, lamb's wool, lambilen, linen, maedatha, malghavan wool, merino wool, mohair, moreen, myssamere, oiremere, oxilen, paeline, pashmina, plumille, qiviut, ramie linen, roltalen, rolton wool, ruhani wool, rackhal, sailcloth, flyrsilk, lotus silk, ramie silk, raw silk, sea silk, spidersilk, starsilk, silk, stoutfoot wool, tartan, tweed, vaslavilen, vicuna, vylith, vylithen, wild silk, woolen, wool, wylten, wynelen, yierkale, and yierka wool.

Using materials outside this list will not work with dyes and may have unexpected results, or not be permifiable.

See Also

• Knitting system
• Knitting needles - crafts knitted items
• Knitting Bowl - stores and crafts knitting yarn