{"id":9652,"date":"2018-01-15T22:48:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T21:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:28:08","slug":"daily_1138_-_knitting_x3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2018\/01\/15\/daily_1138_-_knitting_x3\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1138 &#8211; knitting x3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1138_knitting_x3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/knitting\/\">That cardigan<\/a> I started some years ago? It failed. Despite my calculations and gauge swatches, it came out too small so I ripped it all up when I was well over halfway. Then I was so disappointed and annoyed with the whole project that I put it away for a long time. Now I feel up to a new attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Since the swatches didn&#8217;t help me get the sizing right, I simply made three starts this time, varying some parameter each time.<\/p>\n<p>The first one is the same size as my first attempt, and with the same needle size, but I tried to knit more loosely.<br \/>\nThe second one is the next size up, keeping the same needle size and yarn tension. (Can&#8217;t be 100% sure about the tension but I think I kind of remember.)<br \/>\nThe third one is the same size and same yarn tension, but with thicker needles.<\/p>\n<p>And to complicate things, I&#8217;ve switched the type of needle I use, because I discovered that I like stainless steel much better than aluminium.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this helped at all. They all feel roughly the same size, except the one that I thought would be smallest (small size, small needles, looser knitting) is a bit larger than the others. But it&#8217;s very hard to measure large, curved, floppy things, and also hard try on a small piece of a cardigan that barely covers my shoulders. None of them feels too small, at least.<\/p>\n<p>It may be that I can pick any one of these three and keep going and it&#8217;ll be fine. Or maybe it&#8217;s not possible to judge the size this early in the project and the result will turn out too small or too large anyway. I have no idea where this will end up.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ll pick one and keep going. And if this attempt also goes wrong, then I might simply give up on this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That cardigan I started some years ago? It failed. Despite my calculations and gauge swatches, it came out too small so I ripped it all up when I was well over halfway. Then I was so disappointed and annoyed with the whole project that I put it away for a long time. Now I feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11770,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions\/11770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}