The Knitters Thread

teeni

I would have to unpick it but Like mardatha would swear a lot.

I have tried in the past to leave an error in a complicated piece and have seen my self unstich and reknit the offending bit eventually, I know that i mayas well do it sooner rather than later then at least i dont have to un stich the made up garment as well.

furball

Please can anyone tell me if i can use DK wool for an aran pattern. The patttern is too big for my daughter and i thought if i used some DK i have on a smaller size needle it would gauge down to the correct size. The wool was expensive so i don't want to waste it. Any advice greatly appreciated. Thankyou.

maytaurus

maytaurus

mardatha wrote: »

I've had to ask americans a few times for translations yes ! There's one abbreviation, its for something simple like sl 1, k1, passo - but the way they print is is very different and muddled me up.

British (UK) and American Crochet Terms
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Yarn Weight Equivalents
Knitting Needle sizes
Yardage Estimator
Crochet Hook Sizes
Knitting and Crochet Abbreviations

Penelope_Penguin

furball wrote: »

Please can anyone tell me if i can use DK wool for an aran pattern. The patttern is too big for my daughter and i thought if i used some DK i have on a smaller size needle it would gauge down to the correct size. The wool was expensive so i don't want to waste it. Any advice greatly appreciated. Thankyou.

You can, and it will make a smaller garment. I wouldn't like to say how much smaller, though

I'll add this to the main Knitter's Thread later You might like to take a look there and see if you can find an answer to your question.

Penny. x

Gracie_1827

I'd do a sample square and see how that matches up with what the pattern says your gauge should be. If it's alot smaller use bigger needles.

furball

OOh iv'e got the itch now, please can i join the knitters thread, i would definately have to pull it back as it would bug me, not knitted for years but got some debbie bliss wool a couple of years ago and forgot about it. Found the wool and now i need a new pattern as dd has outgrown the one i was going to us, shame i bought the debbie bliss book, all patterns in it up to 4 yrs, daughter is 4 but size 5 to 6 clothes, typical. Love the link on the first pages to the drop patterns but have never knitten on the round, only just discovered bamboo, any tips from round kneedle knitters appreciated, oh and is seed stitch also moss stitch, thankyou

Auntie_Noo

If you do a gauge/tension square and count how many stitches you are doing to the inch/cm then look at the pattern and see how many stitiches you are using for the main body of the garment you will see how big a DK version will work out.

The main problem may be that the row gauge will be different too, so you might find that armhole shapings end up too small. Keep an eye on the depth as you knit

pol

Oh Rufusdog, those dolls are brilliant. Have you used a pattern or made them up yourself? The second picture looks just like my sil!

pol

Unity

HLK wrote: »

I just noticed I made a mistake about 10cm down in a fairly fiddly aran knit.. I knitted across part of a cable on the reverse side instead of purl.. easily done as just about no 2 rows are the same .. the repeat is over 28 rows and it's more than a repeat away. I have decided just to leave it at it gives it a bit of 'hand-jnitted' authenticity in my book lol .. just wondered what the rest of you would do ? Are you all perfectionists ?

Actually it'd be pretty hard to frog successfully given the pattern.. so wasn't a hard decision for me !

Ah crumbs my bette noir! I would have to unpick and re-knit the offending part, even if no one else could see it - I would know it was there .