Soleil progress and gauge
May. 17th, 2006 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ambericaI finished the waist decreases on Soleil last night... It's about 6 or 6.5 inches long right now, and I need to knit in St st. until it measures 7 inches. One of the main complaints I've heard about this pattern is that several people think it's too short, so I might make it a little bit longer at this point in the pattern.
Now that I have a pretty substantial amount of body done in plain stockinette, I checked to see whether I'm still hitting gauge. I had done a flat swatch and a small tube swatch, and both were pretty close to the recommended gauge. The pattern calls for 22 sts/4", and I think my flat swatch hit 25 or 26, and my tube swatch was something like 21.5 to 22, but it was a rather smallish swatch, and I was having a tough time getting a good clean measurement, so I threw caution to the wind, figured it was close enough, and cast on with the recommended US6 needles from my Denise set.
Well now that I have a nice chunk of stockinette done, I gauged it again and got EXACTLY 5.5 stitches per inch, or 22 sts/4" - nice!! I didn't think to check my row gauge, but I was hitting that pretty spot-on with my swatches, and row gauge isn't usually quite so important anyway. It can always be adjusted as necessary.
I took a couple progress pictures last night and promptly forgot to upload them to Flickr, so I'll be doing that after work today and then re-posting all of this in my knitblog. (I feel bad when I post there without pictures! LOL)
Now that I have a pretty substantial amount of body done in plain stockinette, I checked to see whether I'm still hitting gauge. I had done a flat swatch and a small tube swatch, and both were pretty close to the recommended gauge. The pattern calls for 22 sts/4", and I think my flat swatch hit 25 or 26, and my tube swatch was something like 21.5 to 22, but it was a rather smallish swatch, and I was having a tough time getting a good clean measurement, so I threw caution to the wind, figured it was close enough, and cast on with the recommended US6 needles from my Denise set.
Well now that I have a nice chunk of stockinette done, I gauged it again and got EXACTLY 5.5 stitches per inch, or 22 sts/4" - nice!! I didn't think to check my row gauge, but I was hitting that pretty spot-on with my swatches, and row gauge isn't usually quite so important anyway. It can always be adjusted as necessary.
I took a couple progress pictures last night and promptly forgot to upload them to Flickr, so I'll be doing that after work today and then re-posting all of this in my knitblog. (I feel bad when I post there without pictures! LOL)
