madame nostradamus made it for me. witty little knitter.
I have decided to take it upon myself to make a scarf in leu of the Fourth Doctor. I think I posted at some point about buying the yarn I needed to make it happen. Well, tonight I'm finally giving it a go.
To be honest, though, I've started and restarted a handful of times already, because I wasn't sure how the pattern was going to work out. I picked my yarn based on color, not weight. The pattern calls for DK weight, and I bought worsted. So I figured whatevah, I'll just give it a go and see what happens. Attempt 1 started with garter stitch, but I cast on way too many stitches. I frogged, then decided to cast on less and use a 1x1 rib. After a while I realized the 1x1 would be way too heavy for such a long scarf. So tonight I start my third attempt, and this time it is going to work because I mathed it all out! Hooray math.
Basically, I am cutting everything down a third. I'm casting on 44 sts instead of 64. I went through each row and mathed out how many I should work to have each color take up about the same amount of space.
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BEGIN 6 purple 36 tan 10 brown 8 yellow 16 red 6 purple 30 gray 16 green 6 yellow 20 tan 10 red 6 brown 8 purple 30 green |
CONTINUE 8 yellow 12 gray 8 red 36 tan 8 purple 16 green 10 gray 6 yellow 14 red 6 purple 26 brown 8 tan 6 gray 28 red |
CONTINUE 10 yellow 16 green 6 purple 30 tan 8 brown 16 gray 6 red 10 purple 6 tan 10 yellow 38 green 12 red 10 gray 8 yellow |
CONTINUE 14 brown 6 purple 8 tan 24 gray 6 red 10 yellow 12 tan 6 purple 22 brown 6 red 24 purple END |
I'm going to knit on US8s ... for this yarn 9 is too big and stretchy, and 7 is a bit too small.
Good old mathy math.
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