gauge question

Stitch gauge is much more important than row gauge. You can always add rows to achieve the length you need.

When knitting with the intention of fulling the item the best thing to do is to make a swatch and measure it, then full the swatch and measure it again. Once you know the shrinkage as a percent you can figure out how big to make the [whatever] so that it ends up being the finished size you want.

On Wed, 25 May 2005 12:44:53 GMT, "Laura J" spewed forth :

Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...

I was afraid you were going to say that and, unfortunately, I do not have enough extra yarn to do a test swatch.

So, given that, if my row gauge isn't matching should I figure out how long they mean 106 rows to mean and just knit it that long?

Thanks!

LauraJ

"Laura J" skrev i melding news:9r_ke.1463$QF3.24@trndny06...

I remembered that I wondered when a pattern a claimed for a certain number of rows. In my case, I found out that the reason was, that I should stop AFTER the row which finished the"patteren" (which had 18 repeating rows).

A whole "pattern" more or less, would make a big difference, but I found out that I was experienced enough to make a nice finish after another row!" LOL! I would use my common sense make it as long as you prefer, and find a solution. AUD ;-))

Thanks, Aud! This is just straight stockinette so there isn't any pattern repeat to worry about. I think I'm going to go to 91 rows (which is what my gauge comes out to the same length as their 106 rows) and see how I feel. After 60 rows it is still feeling very short but I'm afraid of running out of yarn if I do the entire 106. So we will see how it looks after another

LauraJ

"Laura J" skrev i melding news:f%Fle.945$zb.105@trndny06...

This sounds most sensible to me! AUD ;-)

Thank you, Mirjam! That is exactly what I will do. Unfortunately, once I got going on the pattern I saw that my gauge was much looser than it was in the swatch I had made so I had to frog the whole thing. I had used 600 yards of yarn so far but at least the pattern was easy!

I appreciate your coming back and answering my question though. I will definitely use your advice when I restart the vest.

Cheers, LauraJ