Yarn is marked with sizes to help you know what type you need to buy.
Most patterns call for a specific brand of yarn. Don't let that throw you. You can use any yarn that is the same weight as the yarn the pattern calls for.
Read labels to compare brands in order to find the right yarn for you. There are many brands out there. Coats and Clark, Lion Brand, Burnett, Patton, and many others. Each style of yarn has a number to explain its thickness as well as a hook size recommendation and yardage amounts. Each brand of yarn varies. 
Lion Brand Knitted Peacock from the CHA Winter Trade Show. The Peacock was made with different weights and kinds of yarns, showing that you can mix and match yarns.
the best size yarn to start prcticing with will be a Medium Weight Yarn and a crochet hook size G or H.
**In order to get the Crochet lessons to fit on to the blog for space purposes, We will do a small part of the lessons each Thursday. Next week we will teach the CHAIN STITCH.
