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Find a yarn substitute

Can't get the yarn your pattern calls for? Here's how to find one that knits up just as well.

Sooner or later you'll fall for a pattern written for a yarn you can't get: discontinued, out of budget, or on the other side of an ocean.

The good news: substitution is a skill, not a gamble. Type your pattern's yarn into the Yarn substitutes tool and it lists every yarn of the same weight and fiber family that's close in length per 100 g, closest first, with how many balls of each you'd need.

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Here are four of the closest substitutes for 10 balls of Malabrigo Rios, from my partner shops:

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