Welcome back to GoodKnitKisses. I'm your host Kristen and today we're going to
talk about knitting gauge. It's important to
test knit a swatch
doing a little sample here of the main stitch that you're going to be
and you can compare what's on the wrapper
to what is
called for in your pattern
and switching out your needles or your loom
or your yarn in order to get that. So in order to get that you need to make a swatch
and you need to
measure the gauge
so just to show you what this gauge was; I had a
super bulky #6 yarn that I knitted up
and I used a US Size 15 needle
but they're showing every here they made a 4"x4" swatch (a 10cmX10cm)
sample
on a US size 13 needle
and they got 9 stitches per inch or 12 stitches per row that's
what this little
chart means
And I'm just telling you some other information that this is acrylic and all
that other stuff and then this is for crochet hook over here
but for our purposes we're going to look over here
the sample that I knit up is a larger than a four-by-four but it's at least four
inches and this direction and then it's
it's much wider in this direction here. I don't have a measurement on me
so I have
a little cheat sheet that I have next to me and so what I've done is I've just
drawn out a quick sketch. This is what it said and I've got my measurements
now when I measured it
I wrote my 4x4 and I got 2 stitches per inch
and 2.75 or 2 3/4 rows per inch
and drew up my little
chart here
I'm gonna show you how I arrived at that
today in using a knitting gauge by Boye. It's called Count 10 plus
this is a really simple and tool to have
and it has a little slider on it
and what you do is you count out how many stitches you want to look at it
You count out the 10 stitches.
...ten
and then we wanted slide the slider over and then we can see
stitches that is per inch on the chart
so if i take my knitting and I slide all the way over to the ten
it would line up
and it would tell me how many stitches per inch
but I had a super bulky 6; and the reason why I showed you this is to show
you know that it may not necessarily fit on here and so what you're going to do is to
see this slide won't go any further
because it's a
"Count 10"
we'll count half (1/2) of that and we'll take whatever this number is here and divided
by two
so we're going count 5 stitches
and we want to slide this over
to here
so we have
5
stitches here
and when I slid this down it lands on the 4
an action take at tI'm actually going to take half this number
because we're counting to 10; but because I can't get that I'm dividing it by 2
so i get 2 stitches
per inch
if you want to test it
you can just get out your tape measure and measure and on the stitches it's a lot easier
'cause they're nice & large but see how I get
2 columns here and that's one inch. So2 stitches per inch
now to get the rows we're going to turn our work
over it this way
and then we went to count to ten
and
mine I've actually done it a little too tight for this sample; it should be more stitches (rows)
you need to do more than 10 rows
for this work but you really should have a few more on either
side of it in order to do it accurately
so we're going to go all the way over to ten
and uh... this one right here it's still going to be if it falls in here is just
a little harder for you could count to five the main thing is is when you make
your swatch you're gonna make it large enough to where you're measuring from
the center and not from the sides the side can be skewed so in this case i'm
just gonna measured five again
and uh... beginning of this one here starts here and we're gonna go all the
way down to five
so we're gonna start at the top of this and count. 1, 2
3, 4
5
and then we're gonna go to the top of the next stitch
so to be consistent on where you have that slid
now when i've got
five
I look over here and it stops at five-and-a-half
if i take this number 5 1/2 (5.5) divided by 2 I get 2.75 (5.5 / 2 = 2.75 rows per in)
or "2 3/4"
so that's how i get
two stitches per inch
and then 2.75 or 2 3/4 rows per inch and it looks
like this. if I was to translate it over into a wrapper
so this is my particular sample
you can actually cut this out and then attach it to the swatch and then
keep that around and you can write on the back or attached directly to it
and that way you've got a nice clear
indication for later; Even putting it in a snack baggie
and keeping it in a nice blinder
for yourself for later
so i hope that has helped you on the knitting gauge. Thanks for tuning into
GoodKnitKisses. I'm your host Kristen. Happy Knitting! (Please subscribe!)