ROCKET BALANCE YARN BALANCE + WPI GAUGES

Yarn Balance + WPI Gauges = The Rocket Balance! Whether you are a hand spinner who wants to properly describe and label your yarn, a knitter who inherited unknown yarn, or any other fiber experimenter wanting a more technical understanding of what you’re working with, the Rocket Balance is going to help you on your fiber arts journey. This device has two tools in one – a yarn balance and a set of inch gauges (aka wraps per inch or WPI gauges). If you are unsure of what either of these are, don’t worry! Our instructions (find them here, also included with every shipment) provide the much-needed details to get you started. Yarn Balance The yarn balance is a tool to determine your yarn’s grist, or how many yards of your yarn it would take to weigh one pound. Why would you want to know your yarn’s grist? First of all, along with twist and fiber type, it is a fundamental quality for describing yarn. Also, as we explain in the instructions, it comes in handy for the common question of “how m