When I got home, I made immediate plans to purchase more of the yarn for the main color from knitwitch's online shop. In my head it was a beautiful grey. On her website it was non existent, but no matter. I emailed her and she dyed up a special lot for me. Meet Pegasus:
I am smitten. It's perfect.
I dove for my needles only to realize...I bought the wrong weight both times. It's a dk weight. The drops pattern calls for a sport weight. Let me reiterate that for you. I bought dk weight yarn at 21-24 sts per 4 inches, the pattern requires a sport weight at 24 sts per 4 inches. It's feasible, I clamour. It's not that bad a difference. I'll just knit down a size, I tell myself. My knitwitch yarn is an 8ply (11 wpi) according to Ravelry and the pattern is requires 5 ply (12 wpi).
So I start hunting the needles I need again. And the same realization hits me in the face. That's the difference of a size 5 or 6 needle required for my yarn and a size 2 needle required for my project.
So follow Knitters, do I continue this delusion any farther and swatch? or would you pick another yoked cardigan pattern?
1 comment:
I've subbed her DK for a worsted weight before. It came out the perfect size as a result. Hell I didn't even do a gauge swatch. I lived dangerously! But I really think you'll be ok. Just swatch. On normal size needles. Give it a shot at least. Or at least get a gauge you like and match it up to a size in the pattern that will work for you.
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