Those of you who have subscribed to the Seven Skeins Club will shortly be receiving an email with some welcome information. If you are a club member and have not received our welcome email by Thursday, please contact us at infoATkatedaviesdesigns.com so that we can amend your details.
The club patterns have been carefully planned to make the most of your seven skeins. The amount of yarn used in each project has been calculated by gauge, yardage and weight, and you’ll note that the welcome information includes an instruction to weigh your skeins before commencing the first pattern. It’s really important you do this now (and indeed keep weighing your yarn after each project is completed) and you’ll probably get rather tired of me instructing you to Weigh Your Skeins. . . but to ensure you never run out of yarn and to help you make choices about which shades to use, and which patterns to knit Jen and Jim (my wizardy tech editors) have devised a superbly nifty calculator.
To use the calculator:
You will need to have a recent version of Microsoft Excel.
Download the calculator here:
Seven Skeins club yarn calculator
Enter an X in the box next to your chosen main colour (MC) shade, your chosen contrast colour (CC) shade, and your chosen weekly project.
Remember to only choose one project per week.
The calculator will then magically tell you how much yarn you will use and how much of each shade remains!
Due to the volume of email we are currently receiving, we are unable to provide any technical support for the yarn calculator and have made it available for your information and assistance only.
Enjoy!
KDD & Co 
Hello
Please FORGET ME NOT –
Waiting for the book
Thank you for the beauty
shoshana carmel
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hello
I have subscribed to the Seven Skeins Club and still waitting impatient and curious .
Can you please check when will I get it ?
Thank You and Best Regards
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Hi Shoshana, your package was posted at the beginning of the month and should be with you very soon. If it hasn’t arrived by Monday, please email us at info@katedaviesdesigns.com. Thank you! Kate
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HI Kate, still waiting for my yarn as it did not quite make it to NH before my mail got forwarded. I need to change my address before the December post goes out and the link above is not working ( did get the excel to work however! and got a scale!) anyway, can you let me know how to change the address when you get a chance? Thanks. So excited to get my yarn soon!!!
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Hi – please email us with your details at info@katedaviesdesigns.com and we will sort out your address change.
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thanks. I have done it! Misread the email as a link initially- sometimes I am so dumb!
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I love the aspect of being a test group, good idea to involve your supporters. By the way the yarn is lovely, intrigued by the effect of different dyes and saturations on the feel of the yarn. The “Squall” selection feels decidedly different from the other undyed selection. Am I correct that there is a difference in the breed used to obtain the darker fleece? If so, it is glorious, I knit a small swatch this morning after having weighed and wound all 7. It knits up beautifully and I threw in a small cable and the definition was great. Looking forward to the New Year. Congratulations thus far.
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I have weighed my yarn as instructed, and downloaded the ‘calculator ‘ to the Apple version of Excel, Numbers. Hope it all works! ( not really sure where all this is leading, but following it all, dutifully). Await further instructions! 😜
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Oh, Kate, my ear arrived yesterday and it is gorgeous! You have really done your homework in putting all this out for us to enjoy. I will enjoy everything as the projects unfold. Thank you!
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Please can we know in advance what size needles we will need so we are ready to go as soon as the patterns are released.
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This is just all so dang fun and exciting thank you Kate and your team of helpers!
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Thanks for such a useful tool! Looking forward to the first pattern – I’ve been petting the yarn while I wait.
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Thank you, Kate. My package arrived today and the colors are lovely. My skeins are weighed and ready to go. Well done and I am so excited for the next step!
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This is amazing! It will help so much. Thank you.
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so great! and was wondering if there are plans to go into production with the yarn for future large projects like jumpers?
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Hi Laura – yes, the yarn will be on general sale in the new year
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Our Best Wishes, Lots of Spare Energy and Love for all Ya’ll do for Us Crazed Fans…P;ease click your heels twice and turn once toward east, then back to the west….and instant surge of energy will pop right in and you’ll feel and uncontrollable urge to smile. Don’t over due or you’ll break out into Laughter that may take some time to stop!!!!
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Thank you Wendy. OH these ‘puters’……………
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you are so clever. I love it!
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Just in case anyone has the same issue … right click on the link to download the calculator and save (mine saved in my downloads folder), then open Excel and do a File … Open to open the file. I use Excel 2010 and have had a problem opening .xlsx files – I think are files created in a newer version than mine: they won’t open directly from the link and Excel tells you its stopped working. Do the right click save thing instead and all is well.
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Dear Kate,
I got shut out of the yarn club, was wondering if there would please be another? Oh so hope !
Linda Tytko
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I wish I could join up but just found this last night and it said it was all filled. Sad.
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Thank you..This will be very helpful
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ARGH, my computer will NOT allow me to open the spreadsheet :(
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Now that is innovative and really COOL/CLEVER. BUT, what about us who, at this time, cannot buy the yarns as much as we’d like to? I am assuming there will be a book, MUST have that book. Thank you.
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