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Knitting - help and advice super thread!
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Right, your gauge could be about 25 sts per 4 inches.
So that means the length of piece you have knitted could be 13.5 inches.
(85/25 * 4 inches)
Will this go around her head?
To be honest it sounds small, but best thing to do is just keep going. If you knitting is loose you could be saved, mine is quite tight so I never get away with it. Also I find knitting in straight needles instead of circulars can make it tighter.
All the hats that I have knitted by big headed baba and not once did I think to calculate out the gauge by stitches. All that ripping and restarting (and redesigning fairisle patterns!) that could have been avoided.
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Brilliant! One more question, should I add 30 to the 97 which is for 0-3 month old or add it onto the 127 which is for the 6-9 month? Would it be way off if I had 45 to 127 for fit up to 24 month old? Thank you
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Brilliant! One more question, should I add 30 to the 97 which is for 0-3 month old or add it onto the 127 which is for the 6-9 month? Would it be way off if I had 45 to 127 for fit up to 24 month old? Thank you
Well their heads don't keep growing at the same rate. The hat I made for my boy last year still fits him this year (he'll be 2 in the new year). I reckon just add 30 on to the largest size, it should be enough if not more than enough.
The reason people knit a gauge is that two knitters with the same needles and yarn can make dramatically different sizes of garments as their natural knitting style can be tighter or looser than the norm. I always knit a gauge square for a large garment, but for something like a hat I rarely bother as it's so quick to knit. But that's just me!
So if the gauge on the ball of yarn says 4x4" = 22 row, 16 stitches, I would cast on 20 stitches and knit say 25 rows and measure the 4x4" and see how many rows and stitches it takes to form that size, if it's more than the number on the gauge I would try again with the next size up needles and vice versa if it took fewer stitches to meet the gauge.0 -
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Stuck again sorry! On row 7 it says k and inc 1 (dec 1 : dec 3) sts evenly across row. And then it gives the amount of stitches which should be left 81/91/101 or in my case 121. Right now I have 135. What do I do for row 7? Thanks so much
I think I was wrong earlier about the 135, I just gave it a quick glance
CO 157
After R2 - 129
After R3 - 128
On Row 7 decrease 7 evenly around (every 16th stitch in this case, I think)
After R7 - 1210 -
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not used to knitting... so can some tell me exactly what this means...
"Beg fisherman's rib - when counting sts count the yarn over needle and the slip st as one st.
Foundation row - P1,K1*sl 1 purlways with yarn over needle (to make stitch), K1, rep from * to last st, P1.
1st row - K1, sl 1 purlways with yarn over the needle (to make a stitch), *K1 together with the yarn over needle from previous row, sl 1 purlways with yarn over needle (to make a stitch),rep from*to last st, K1.
2nd row - P1, K1 together with the yarn over needle from previous row,*sl 1 purlways with yarn over needle (to make a stitch), K1 together with the yarn over needle from previous row, rep from * to last st, P1"
if anyone can make sense of this please let me know!! PLEASE HELP
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not used to knitting... so can some tell me exactly what this means...
"Beg fisherman's rib - when counting sts count the yarn over needle and the slip st as one st.
When using this pattern, count the stitches and the slanty yarn over the needle as one stitch rather than 2 as with this pattern the yarn over will be knitted together in the next row to for the pattern.
Foundation row - P1,K1*sl 1 purlways with yarn over needle (to make stitch), K1, rep from * to last st, P1.
purl one stitch,, knit one, slip the next stitch from one needle to the other with out doing anything to it, then bring the yarn over the needle from back to front and back again to make a stitch, then knit one. Repeat this step until yo have one stitch left and then purl that one.
1st row - K1, sl 1 purlways with yarn over the needle (to make a stitch), *K1 together with the yarn over needle from previous row, sl 1 purlways with yarn over needle (to make a stitch),rep from*to last st, K1.
Knit one, move the yarn as if you were going to purl one but instead slip the stitch onto the next needle without doing anything to it.
Now, knit the next 2 stitches on you needle together to make one. Next wrap the yarn around the needle to make a stitch from back to front and around to the front again, keep doing this until theres only one stitch and then just knit that one
2nd row - P1, K1 together with the yarn over needle from previous row,*sl 1 purlways with yarn over needle (to make a stitch), K1 together with the yarn over needle from previous row, rep from * to last st, P1"
if anyone can make sense of this please let me know!! PLEASE HELP
This basically as above, make sense?
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