Okay, sometimes I'm a bit of a crazy accurate geek. It's mostly related to the "do I have enough left?" question. Do I have enough time left to stop by this drive through on the way to work? Do I have enough money left to buy this? This time it was; do I have enough yarn left to make another pair of fingerless mittens out of this ball? The ball band said it was a 100g ball of yarn. I weighed what I had left over (on my new and spiffy postal scale) and it was 64g. Woohoo! More than half left!
Just for gits and shiggles I decide to weigh the gloves too. They're 40g. Danger! Danger! Does not compute! I weigh them both again. Still the same. I go and grab the two other skeins (one's only a 50g skein) of the yarn I have, and weigh those too. The other ones also weigh 104g and 52g. It's off by 4% of what it should be.
I look for and don't find anything even vaguely resembling a control, and resort to measuring out 10ml of water and use that as a control. That comes out right. I may have to do more tests to confirm, but KnitPicks seems to include 4% extra yarn. At least on gloss sock yarn.
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