Gauge discussion group
Thank you to beanmama and yes,I knit... for your comments on gauge.
We all want the gauge in the pattern to be set to our own knitting style, but is there a design reason this cannot be?
I would like to contribute two thoughts on the subject and solicit your feedback:
Q1) Gauge can be adjusted to a knitters style if only the pattern has no 'motif' (e.g. a snowflake pattern) since the style does not risk distortion. Do you Designers out there agree with this statement?
Q2) The majority of beginners and intermediate knitters knit using only 1 or 2 colors and only advanced intermediate knitters actually tackle a project with a motif. Do you agree with this statement?
We all want the gauge in the pattern to be set to our own knitting style, but is there a design reason this cannot be?
I would like to contribute two thoughts on the subject and solicit your feedback:
Q1) Gauge can be adjusted to a knitters style if only the pattern has no 'motif' (e.g. a snowflake pattern) since the style does not risk distortion. Do you Designers out there agree with this statement?
Q2) The majority of beginners and intermediate knitters knit using only 1 or 2 colors and only advanced intermediate knitters actually tackle a project with a motif. Do you agree with this statement?
posted by Talk To Us at 1:29 PM
5 Comments:
I am a beginner, and I fear working with more than 2 colors at a time, thus I agree with statement 2.
I crochet and knit. From the crochet side, I agree with 1 and 2.
From the knit side, I can't speak for 1, Im still beginning. For 2, I def. agree. Im petrified to try motifs. Though, more than two colors, Id try out.
Colorwork, for me, doesn't change my gauge as much as cables do -- obviously. If I do a multicolor gauge swatch (which I would do if I were knitting a multicolor item whether it required 2, 3, or 11 colors,) then I know what my gauge is. It is important for me that any software that I would buy (because I would want something that could grow with me as I learn more,) would be capable of adjusting the pattern based on my gauge #s.
My frustration with the knitting s/w I have is that if I design a sweater with a cable pattern in it, I am on my own figuring out how much that cable (or series of cables, whatever I'm doing,) is going to compress my knitting and how many stitches I need to add to make up for that compression. I would loooooove s/w that could do that for me.
Ditto if I choose a lace pattern that has a defined repeat -- e.g, if the pattern stitch I'm using is a repeat of 10 stitches plus 2, then any pattern is going to need to figure that into the equation so my pattern stitch doesn't look funky, meets properly at the side seams, etc.
If I could find s/w that would do that for me I would buy it in a HEARTBEAT.
However, if you're gearing your product toward beginning/advanced beginning knitters, then it sounds like you're expecting them to stick with garter or stockinette or some other allover pattern that doesn't run into these problems.
as long as one creates a gauge swatch, even for a motif you can create your personal gauge using basic mathmatical formulas.
gauge = stitches per inch (s/i)
Stitches = inches/gauge
Size (inches) = stitches x gauge
I don't see what the problem is. Gauge is gauge. You swatch your work and enter the gauge that you get.
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