- Welcome to GoodKnit Kisses techniques and tutorials.
Hi, I'm Kristen.
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at GoodKnit Kisses to help keep you in stitches. (laughs)
Today's clip is from a longer video
and a longer tutorial that is a pattern.
We are going to shorten it down
for you today so click on the link
in the description below if you'd like
more information or that full video tutorial.
Alright, let's begin.
First you want to determine what size
you want your cushion to be.
Of course, you can just jump right in
and make this 16 inch but it won't
make it if your stitches are too tight or too loose.
This is according to the gauge that they got.
This is important when you come to measured items.
Let's say you measure across the width
of your seat and you determine I need this 18 inches.
What you need to do is make yourself a swatch.
This tutorial is gonna show you
how to make the swatch and then
you can cast on a greater number
and make exactly the size that you need.
I'm gonna give you all the tools
so listen up and get your pencil
ready to write it on your sheet.
Be sure to print out a sheet to
the side and make notes, okay?
I'm just working off of this iPad here
but on the side I have written notes to refer to.
This says right here, the measurement
is 16 inches or 40.5 centimeters,
so if you're going by centimeters,
I'm just gonna refer to inches
in this tutorial so you'll have to
make that conversion for yourself.
The gauge is 14 stitches, which is across
and we're gonna ignore this rows section here.
14 stitches in a four inch area,
so you would take 14 divided by four to find out
how many stitches in one inch that you get.
I happen to get, when I take 14
divided by four, I get three and a half stitches.
There's three and a half stitches per inch
and if you take three and a half
times the 16 inches that we want, you get
the 55 stitches that they want you to cast-on.
If you want 18, then you would say
three and a half times, it changes
to 18, and then this number would become 63
and if you had a 20 inch, the number
would become 70, and so on and so forth
but what if you measure yours and it's a different number?
Well then you would take whatever
number you get in that four inch period
and take that number divided by four inches
and then you've got your stitches per inch
and then you multiply it times
the width that you want, that's it.
That just tells you, that determines
how many stitches you're gonna start with.
For our cast-on I'll show you what we're gonna do.
You can cast-on the same stitches
that I've done here and it will allow you
hopefully to get about the same size that I have.
I'm able to measure a four inch
area here and I've got this little
hard gauge measurement tool here,
it's got it all along the side.
I'm gonna measure across four inches
and show you, I happen to get exactly
what they have but yours may be off a little bit.
To get this size, we casted on, let's see.
One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, okay.
I have 17 stitches, I need an odd number
of stitches to get this stitch pattern.
This is the seed stitch pattern.
I'm gonna come down here and I'm gonna
look at my stitches and let's zoom in
so you can really see this.
I have a V, sticking like a V here.
This V of the stich here, okay?
Then I have a purl bump next to it,
that's in the same row, a row goes across.
We're just gonna measure one row across.
We have a V and then the purl,
a V and then the purl, a V and the purl.
You can put this nice straight piece
across here and you can tell where that V starts.
I'm gonna start it right at that line here
and I'm gonna go looking across
and I'm gonna count, so every time
a purl bump appears, that's number two.
So we can count by twos, let's say
two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14.
Look at that, we completed that 14th one
right at that four, this line right here
is actually where the four ends.
I've got 14 stitches across here
but yours might be 12 or it might be 16 across
and now you know the math from a few minutes earlier.
We're gonna keep going and cast on,
I just want you to know that's how you determine your size.
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