Once I knew my stitch and row counts, I could assign different bands of the vest to different colorway combinations, which would allow me to figure out how often I needed to change colorways so that I could use up as much of the yarn as possible.
Tag Archives: Yarn Usage
Designing: Avoiding Yarn Chicken in Sweater 2
Just as I did with the first sweater in this series, I’m going to make a multi-column table in my word processor and use my knitting font to show every stitch, including the cast-on and bound-off stitches, of the sweater.
Evaluation: CotLin U-Neck
I can’t truly evaluate the CotLin U-Neck sweater until it’s been washed because I already know the gauges will change, and hopefully the FO, like the swatch, will stabilize after two laundry cycles.
Working: Avoiding Yarn Chicken, Part 2
I updated my garment chart with the body increases so that I could count how many stitches I would need to make with each colorway, just for some assurance that I wouldn’t be playing yarn chicken with any of them. I also updated the sleeves to show the two stitches I’d need to increase to accommodate the 2×2 ribbing on the cuffs. I used blank table rows between each group of colorway rows to make it easy to select the table cells containing the stitch symbols for each colorway.
Designing: Color Changes
Now that I know I will have enough yarn to make the sweater, I need to figure out exactly where to change to the next colorway. Since I’m working top-down, all the shaping starts right after CO, so I expect the first color to be used for quite a few more rows than the other colors will be, simply because those initial rows are so short.
Designing: Avoiding Yarn Chicken
Since my CotLin value pack has two sets of colorways that constitute two fades, I need to figure out when to change to the next colorway. I have no stomach for yarn chicken, so I’ll go to extremes to figure out how many stitches I can get from each skein, and I’ll allow a cushion in case my numbers are off. As a first step, I need to figure out how much fabric, in terms of square inches, my sweater will be.