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thegrape said:
That's what I would do also. There are different weights of lace even, so two strands of lace weight would not necessarily equal a fingering weight
This is true...there are some laceweight yarns that are only 1-ply..they are called cobweb weight. Some of the Haapsalu shawls are knitted with this weight.

I have a lot of laceweight yarn from Knitpicks (2-ply) and if I put two strands together, they are still slightly less that one of my fingering weight yarns.

Another problem is the definition of laceweight and fingering weight. These differ from country to country and from manufacturer to manufacturer....for instance: two strands of Paton's Lace together will make 1 strand of fingering weight from the Supersock store..

This message didn't really help in an actual answer, but it is the best I can think of right now.

Could you post of picture of your yarn with a ruler...then we all might be able to see what you want to do and maybe together we can get a better answer?
 
I purchased a one ply silk yarn not realizing what it is. Now I am wondering if I should buy another light yarn, like 3 ply or something and knit the two together probably twisting the silk around. Do you think that it would work? Thanks YasminaB
 
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sanaylor said:
I have some lace weight yarn and wondered if I held another lace weight yarn with it, would that be the same as a fingering weight yarn?
Thanks for all your replies. I have 950 yards of Madelinetosh Tosh Lace in Scarlet (red). I was thinking about buying another ball of the same weight and was hoping that it would be fairly close to fingering weight.

I was also wondering what color you all think I should combine with the red. I was wanting something subtle not too contrasting. Any suggestions?
 
You can go to WEBS or Jimmy Beans and plug in your yarn weight and it will give you the number of stitches for that weight.
I worked in a yarn shop and worsted was 16 over 4, Bulky was about 9-11 over 4. Aran weight was 18- 19 over 4, Sport/DK 20-24 all within a stitch either way.
 
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