Getting ready for the Knitting Olympics, I thought I'd hedge my bets and do things the right way and actually do a swatch. Two watches in different colors in fact. But no worky! I got about 4 inches in and began to suspect that I had entirely too much sweater. Turns out I was right and when I measured I discovered that I had about 6 inches too much sweater and every time I measure it stretched out more! So I gave in and remeasured the gauge and did yet another swatch on smaller needles and did some more math and finally started over with 202 stitches instead of 238 stitches. Grr. I wanted to use smaller needles cause the stitches were very loose and the swatch came out much firmer with, so that made me happy, but also worried that I'd go round the bend the other way and end up with a sweater that was too small. But I just made my best guess and began knitting away on the 202 stitches. After about 4 inches this time I was relieved to find out that Todd's sweater was actually coming out the right size. Hooray! Now I just hope that my false start doesn't mean that I can't finish the sweater on time.
Getting ready for the Knitting Olympics, I thought I'd hedge my bets and do things the right way and actually do a swatch. Two watches in different colors in fact. But no worky! I got about 4 inches in and began to suspect that I had entirely too much sweater. Turns out I was right and when I measured I discovered that I had about 6 inches too much sweater and every time I measure it stretched out more! So I gave in and remeasured the gauge and did yet another swatch on smaller needles and did some more math and finally started over with 202 stitches instead of 238 stitches. Grr. I wanted to use smaller needles cause the stitches were very loose and the swatch came out much firmer with, so that made me happy, but also worried that I'd go round the bend the other way and end up with a sweater that was too small. But I just made my best guess and began knitting away on the 202 stitches. After about 4 inches this time I was relieved to find out that Todd's sweater was actually coming out the right size. Hooray! Now I just hope that my false start doesn't mean that I can't finish the sweater on time.
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