Do the math
So I started a cardigan for myself - “Sandy Cardigan” from Big Girl Knits (because, you know, I’m a big girl now). Anyway…I’m using my accidental purchase from eBay - Noro Kureyon, which I’m loving working with. However….I’m having a problem with gauge, or I think I am. The cardigan works up with four panels made of the Kureyon, knit diagonally. I’m dead on gauge both row and stitch wise and the panel is dead on in width. Length? Well that’s another story. I’m not through yet, but I figure it will finish up about 25″ at best — the pattern says it should be 27″.
After knitting the panel, you pick up along the long edges (with a different yarn - Lamb’s Pride is what’s in the pattern) and knit 2″. Now, if I do the math - the 105 picked up stitches worked to the gauge will be exactly 27″. The Kureyon panel is kinda stretchy….but 2″?
Don’t even ask about the math I’ve done with triangles and the Pythagorean theorem trying to figure where the length should end! Who said you’d never use this stuff after high school….
Anyway, my plan is to forge on, finish the panel and knit the 2″ along the side…and then see where I am.
