Yes Mistress Row Gauge, I should have listened to you. Yes, Mistress, I understand that even if I like the sweater at 24 rows to 10cm *you* like it better at the 18 rows that the pattern calls for.
Yes mistress row gauge, while it does look a bit messier (but that will block out) and I see the sweater has a better drape and will actually fit me if I knit it to the proper gauge. And yes, I will therefore have enough yarn to finish it instead of running out like I did the first time.
I understand that I must listen to your Mistress Row Gauge and paying for my folly by knitting most of the sweater again.
Yes Mistress I should have listened to you. I will try to be more subservient to you in the future.
hee. You better. She'll always get you in the end.
Posted by: Juno | July 25, 2006 at 10:56 AM
This just further supports my theory that the purpose of swatching should not be to hit some magic number in the pattern but to determine how to knit up a suitable fabric.
It appears you have lived in denial about this problem for a while, though.
Posted by: JoVE | July 25, 2006 at 11:28 AM
well, yes, but how do you fix row gauge if the stitch gauge is correct? I don't get that part. Sigh.
Posted by: Rachel H | July 25, 2006 at 01:27 PM
And this is why I am using the new lazy method of gauge-y-ness: make a swatch in preferred style and then find a pattern using the yarn (which mostly limits my yarns at the moment and means I only have one nearly whole sweater back to rip out). Stupid row gauge.
Posted by: Seanna Lea | July 25, 2006 at 02:32 PM
Ruh-roh. You have to admit, though, the Mistress makes a really lovely whip, doesn't she?
Posted by: Lee Ann | July 25, 2006 at 05:04 PM
Yes, please explain how to change row gauge without affecting stitch gauge. My method is to A, figure out what size needles I need to get the stitch gauge, and 2, rewrite the pattern to accommodate my row gauge. Help!
Posted by: kmkat | July 26, 2006 at 12:16 PM
I'm so not ready to face this foe. I'm only getting the tight enough stitch gauge. Sometimes I hide in the blanket-shawl-scarf closet to feed my denial.
Please explain how you can have row AND stitch gauge, and make a garment too.
Posted by: Angie | July 26, 2006 at 01:59 PM
"new" implies there was a previous dominatrix?
it's still a pretty color
Posted by: minnie | July 26, 2006 at 09:54 PM
Indeed. You are her bitch.
Actually, we all are.
Posted by: claudia | July 28, 2006 at 07:30 PM