Comments on: Swatching & Designing: Part I (Or, why knit a fancy swatch?) http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/lucia/366 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:19:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: lucia http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/lucia/366/comment-page-1#comment-15972 lucia Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:42:33 +0000 http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/lucia/366#comment-15972 I don't know what the "K" number is. I'm used to her full sweaters. I don't have the 1989 copy of knitters. Can you type some actual words from the directions? Or send a photo? Of scan and send them to me? Lucia I don’t know what the “K” number is. I’m used to her full sweaters. I don’t have the 1989 copy of knitters.

Can you type some actual words from the directions? Or send a photo? Of scan and send them to me?
Lucia

]]> By: Diane Marshall http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/lucia/366/comment-page-1#comment-15971 Diane Marshall Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:52:49 +0000 http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/lucia/366#comment-15971 I am desparet to try and understand EZ's "K" number explanation, but the info in my old 1989 Knitter mag is NOT helpful. Would someone kindly write to me and explain it? When Elizabeth talks about measuring one's favorite sweater, does she mean ONLY 1/2 of it? (Mine is 24 " frontS) Okay, I have a swatch gauge of 5 s per inch. So my answer is 120 right? (In the article she says to divide that by 3. WHY? My answer is: 40 right? But to CO she says use 9 X that. Does that mean I CO 360 S? That sure seems like a lot of stitches doesn't it? One last question: during cast on, after WHAT STITCH NUMBER ddo I put a marker (that means at what two places?). And then begin that dble.decrease of ssk psso k or do I use S k2 tog and then psso? Ok sorry for the length of this but I don't have faith in my above calculations. Please advise soon? I am desparet to try and understand EZ’s “K” number explanation, but the info in my old 1989 Knitter mag is NOT helpful. Would someone kindly write to me and explain it?
When Elizabeth talks about measuring one’s favorite sweater, does she mean ONLY 1/2 of it? (Mine is 24 ” frontS)
Okay, I have a swatch gauge of 5 s per inch.
So my answer is 120 right?
(In the article she says to divide that by 3. WHY?
My answer is: 40 right?
But to CO she says use 9 X that. Does that mean I CO 360 S?
That sure seems like a lot of stitches doesn’t it?
One last question: during cast on, after WHAT STITCH NUMBER ddo I put a marker (that means at what two places?). And then begin that dble.decrease of ssk psso k or do I use S k2 tog and then psso?
Ok sorry for the length of this but I don’t have faith in my above calculations. Please advise soon?

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