r/WhatIsThisYarn↗
A community for identifying unknown yarn. Got unlabeled mill ends? Were you gifted yarn? Lose a label? Post it here and find some answers.
8.6k subscribers77 posts / mo in Sep 202675 authors / mosince 2022
r/WhatIsThisYarn has 8.6k members. It gets about 77 posts a month from 75 people. Top topics: Yarn Identification Help, Yarn Substitution Requests and YarnProjectsIdeas.
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- Yarn Identification Help67%
- Yarn Substitution Requests11%
- YarnProjectsIdeas1.5%
- Cake Yarn Projects1.0%
- Yarn Projects & Dyed Yarns1.0%
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