Yarn stash

What's in your basket, your bin, your closet. Tracked so you know what you have without rummaging.

Adding yarn

Tap Stash → + Add yarn. The form has a lot of fields but only a few are required. You can save with just a brand and a skein count, and fill in the rest later.

The fields:

Brand: Sandnes Garn, DROPS, KFO, Lopi, etc. Start typing and you'll see suggestions: yarns you've added before, plus a built-in catalogue of Nordic producers.
Yarn name: once you've picked a brand, the names cascade to that brand's yarns (Alpaca, Karisma, Léttlopi, etc.). Picking a known yarn auto-fills weight, fibre composition, and meterage, but only into fields you haven't typed in yet, so it never overwrites you.
Colour: by name (Cream, Bluebell) or by number, or both. Picks from the colourway catalogue for the chosen brand + yarn when one exists, plus colours you've used before.
Skeins: how many you have.
Dye lot: important for matching skeins across purchases. Same colour, different dye lot, slightly different shade.
Weight: Lace / Fingering / DK / Aran / etc. The industry names, same in English and Norwegian.
Fibre composition: pick fibres and percentages. 80% wool + 20% nylon, for example.
Meters per skein + grams per skein: what the ball-band says.

Less-common fields live behind Advanced: crochet hook + gauge, care instructions, origin, price, store. Open it the moment you need to record any of them.

Multi-colour yarns

Self-striping, variegated, gradient: yarns that aren't one colour. Tap the Add colour chip in the colour section to add a second (or third, or tenth) hex. The yarn shows as vertical stripes on the detail banner and as a pie slice on stash thumbnails.

Scanning a ball-band

If the yarn has a barcode, tap the barcode icon next to the Add yarn button (yarn tab only). The camera opens; scan the code on the ball-band.

Three things can happen:

Already in your stash: the app asks if you want to add another skein to that yarn, or open it.
Recognised product: opens the Add-yarn form prefilled with the brand, name, weight, fibre, gauge, needle. You just fill in the colour and dye lot.
Unknown code: opens a blank form with the code attached. As you fill in the brand + name + weight and save, the app remembers the code-to-yarn association for next time.

Over time your scan library fills out. See barcode templates for the full picture.

Editing a yarn

Tap any yarn row to open its detail screen. Edit in the top-right opens the form again. Create copy lets you clone a yarn (useful when you've bought "the same yarn but a different colour", keeps everything you typed once, just change the colour).

Weighing yarn as you use it

When you're using yarn in a project, you can record how much you've used. On the project detail screen, each yarn row has a speedometer button. Tap it to log grams (or meters) consumed. The yarn's skein count decrements automatically (using whichever math is most accurate, grams ÷ grams-per-skein preferred).

You can also adjust on the way back: weighed too much, scale was off, just edit the same field on the project and the stash recomputes.

Sorting + filtering

Above the list:

Search: folds accents (Jarbo finds Järbo, Lopi finds Löpí), matches brand / yarn / colour / fibre / dye-lot.
Sort: by name, by brand, by quantity, or by knit gauge (coarsest first, matches how Norwegian knitters look at weight). Remembered between opens.
Hide empty: collapse anything with zero skeins.
Group expansion: tap a group's chevron to expand or collapse it.

Equipment

Switch to the Equipment view via the toggle at the top of the Stash tab. Same idea: add needles, hooks, and accessories; edit them later.

For interchangeable needles, the model splits a set into tips and cables so you can track what tips + cables you own independently. Picking needles in a project gives you all the combinations.

Notes field

Every yarn (and every project, pattern, etc.) has a notes field. Whatever you type there shows up on the detail view; if you paste or type a web link (http or www), it becomes a tappable underlined link that opens in your browser.