- Do you want to determine the size that your Graphghan,
or your Corner to Corner blanket will be?
What do you want, what size do you want?
How many blocks do you make?
(jazzy piano music) Well, I can help you
with that today.
Welcome back to GoodKnit Kisses,
where we stitch our love, and love our stitches.
Be sure and click on our video,
for the Corner to Corner blanket tutorial,
if you have not made one before, and if you have,
I want you to make a five by five swatch,
and you can use my calculator for free.
Go click on the link down below,
to get your free calculator on our website.
I'm gonna show it to you right now.
This is on our site, I've already kinda scrolled down,
this is our C2C interactive crochet calculators,
and we have other calculators on our site,
if you're looking for those.
If you wanna know how many squares in your Graphghan to do,
you're just gonna scroll down here,
make sure that you make a swatch.
You wanna make sure you make a swatch
that's five blocks wide, by five blocks long,
in the intended yarn and hook you want your Graphghan,
or Corner to Corner, and, if you have already started
on your blanket, and you just crocheted past
getting all those, you do basically about nine rows
in order to get that, so, if you wanna just keep going
and then measure it from your existing work
that you've already got going, that's fine too,
you could put on some stitch markers
onto your work, like this,
and then measure what I'm gonna talk about here.
So, let's go ahead and measure first.
So, I've made mine, and it doesn't matter what yarn you use,
you're just gonna measure across five blocks,
so I have got three and a half inches,
and whether you use inches or millimeters,
you can use that size, and put it into the calculator.
So, I've got three and a half inches,
and I've already measured across, and I already know
I have three and a half across.
And, we're gonna put this information into our calculator.
So, we come over here to the website, swatch width,
I'm gonna say three and a half, 3.5,
swatch length, 3.5,
and then desired width of finished project.
Let's say that I want it 36 inches wide,
and I want it 48 inches long, maybe I don't want a square.
So, we're gonna say 48 inches long, and so,
immediately pops out this number,
that I need 51 squares wide, and 69 squares long.
So, if I want to use a graph, then I would count out
how many that is, kind of block that off,
and then I could start coloring in my design
that I wanna fit into that graph, isn't that cool?
If you want to make it 52, say, your graph,
you're like, oh, I just wanna use even numbers,
you can determine that as well, and also,
you can find out what size it actually will be.
So, let's scroll further, and our knitting fairy,
calculator fairy, Joann, has made us a second one,
and all you need to put in is your swatch width again,
so we're gonna put in 3.5,
and our swatch length, 3.5,
and go down to the number of squares across,
and that one said 51, but let's see what it says
when I hit 52, and then the number of squares down,
what did it say?
69, let's say we wanna make it 70, what is it at 70?
'Cause maybe I can remember 52 by 70,
maybe that's easier for me, right?
So, we're gonna go here, and the finished width
of the project is gonna be 36.4 inches,
by 49 inches, that's awesome.
What if I made it exactly how it told me,
what size would I end up with?
51 by 69.
It immediately recalculates it,
and you can see that it's 35.7 inches, by 48.3,
so, if you're trying to make this for a bed,
and you've already determined the length
and width that you want, then you can play with
the number of squares across, and find out what that is.
So again, you would come back up here, okay,
to the first calculator, and then you would say
your desired width of the finished project is,
whatever that is, you know, say you need your blanket to be,
80 inches wide, and 80 inches long, maybe you're making
a king size bed, is that a king size bed?
I dunno, I haven't even looked it up.
If you wanna know different blanket sizes,
we have a calculator for that, and charts for that
on our site, so be sure and click down below,
and get all the goody-goods there.
And now, this says that you're gonna need 114 wide,
and 114 long, to make that big square.
So, I've still got my swatch up here, input,
and then I just change that, oh my goodness,
I've already forgotten, what did it say?
114, (laughs) okay.
So, we're gonna do 114, and, here we go, 114,
and then we know that this project is gonna be 79.8,
so see, it didn't quite make the 80 inches that I wanted,
and maybe I'm a stickler, and I'm like, well,
then what does 115 do?
Let's do 115, and maybe, then we get it.
Okay, so, 80.5.
So, that is according to the swatch that you measure,
make sure that you're very accurate
on how you measure your projects,
and you can put in fractions, you can put those in.
If you need help on a fraction list,
of whatever the fraction is, converted to a decimal point,
we can totally put that on the site for you as well,
if you need help, but this one measures across,
it's really, it's three and a half, so,
that's what I would work with, but say, I could say 3 3/4,
and that would be 3.75, so if you need help
converting fractions into decimal points,
we've got you covered, we'll put that on there for you.
Well, I hope that you have enjoyed
learning how to make your own C2C, in our series.
If you haven't, be sure and check that out below,
and all the other videos in our series.
We also went over solid granny square,
a classic granny square, and we've worked over the treble,
the double crochet, half double, and this single crochet,
as well as the linen stitch.
I hope that you have enjoyed that,
this crochet series, it's been fun.
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