It’s so important to swatch and check for gauge right? Well, swatching doesn’t seem to work for me. I get different gauge in the round than knitting back and forth, and I get different gauge on swatches than when I’m knitting a project. Swatches seem to be useless!
And here’s another reason why: What do you do when you swatch and your gauge is too big, then you go down a needle size and find your gauge is too small?? I’m swatching for the breezy cardigan by Hannah Fettig right now and have swatched entirely too many times. I’m desperately trying to make Henry’s Attic peruvian tweed DK fit this gauge. By all that is right and good in the world, that ought to work, since the recommended gauge for the yarn is 6 st/inch on size 5 needles. But I get 5.5 st/inch on size 5… and on size 4 needles. think I’m just going to do some magic math to match the pattern to my gauge instead of getting my gauge to match the pattern. Yay for a math degree. It seems that’s what I end up doing for most of my projects anyway.
Remember in highschool when your teacher was trying to get you to change units, and you said, “When will I ever need this?” Ha.
Mad Notion Knitting 