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Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick in the UK: closest UK yarns
You can buy it in the UK: LoveCrafts had 27 of its 68 shades in stock on 6 October 2026. If your shade has gone, these are the closest UK yarns. The closest UK swap in the yarns we track is Paintbox Simply Super Chunky: 100% acrylic, 60m per 100g against 57.1m, and 8 knitted stitches to 10cm on its ball band against 9 on the maker’s. It’s 100% acrylic rather than an 80% acrylic, 20% wool blend, so it will feel and wash a little differently.
Best UK swap: Paintbox Simply Super Chunky · 19 shades in stock · from £3.20 a ball
See Paintbox Simply Super Chunky shades at LoveCrafts ↗More choice: search Amazon UK for super chunky wool blend yarn ↗
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How many balls to buy
Buy by length, not by ball: a ball of Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick in a solid shade holds 97m (print and multi shades often come in smaller balls; check the label) and a ball of Paintbox Simply Super Chunky holds 60m.
- 1 ball of Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick (97m) → 2 of Paintbox Simply Super Chunky
- 3 balls of Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick (291m) → 5 of Paintbox Simply Super Chunky
- 5 balls of Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick (485m) → 9 of Paintbox Simply Super Chunky
- 10 balls of Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick (970m) → 17 of Paintbox Simply Super Chunky
For any pattern, our yarn substitution calculator does the sum, and the pattern reader pulls the yarn list out of a pasted pattern.
UK yarns compared
| UK yarn | UK weight | Fibre | Metres per 100g | Knit tension (10cm) | UK balls per Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick ball | Shades in stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paintbox Simply Super Chunky best match | Super chunky | 100% acrylic | 60m (+5%) | 8 sts (-11%) | 1.62 | 19 of 25, from £3.20 |
| Stylecraft Special XL Super Chunky | Super chunky | 100% acrylic | 68m (+19%) | 9 sts (0%) | 0.71 | 21 of 28, from £5.85 |
Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick: the maker’s specs
| Weight | 6 Super Bulky |
|---|---|
| Fibre | Most colours: 80% acrylic, 20% wool (some shades differ: Wheat & Wood 86/10/4 rayon; Oatmeal, Barley, Grey Marble 82/10/8 rayon; Graphite, Obsidian, Kale, Raisin 77/20/3 viscose; Metallics 79/20/1 other or polyester) |
| Ball (solid shades) | 170g (6 oz), 97m (106 yd) |
| Metres per 100g | 57.1m |
| Hook | N-13 (9 mm) |
| Needles | #13 (9 mm) |
| Tension | Crochet: 6.6 sc x 8 r = 4 in on N-13 (9 mm); Knit: 9 sts x 12 r = 4 in on #13 (9 mm) |
Before you swap
US weight 6 (super bulky) is thicker than most UK chunky yarns; look for “super chunky” on the ball band. Make a 10cm swatch in your swap yarn with the pattern’s hook or needles and compare it with the tension above. If your square is bigger, go down a size; if it’s smaller, go up. Swapping fibre changes the feel and the wash: acrylic for acrylic, cotton for cotton keeps a pattern behaving as written.
Sources: Lion Brand product page, Paintbox Simply Super Chunky. How we rank swaps: one combined score for closeness in metres per 100g, knitted tension on the ball band and fibre, with a small penalty for yarns with fewer than 10 shades in stock and for a chunky standing in for a worsted. See also UK yarn weights explained.