I knitted a small swatch with the 2ply sample I had spun and washed. I didn”t bother to knit a sample with the 3ply as I preferred the 2ply and think it will offer a lighter drape in the finished fabric, also will require less spun singles.
\nI measured the wpi of the finished sample at about 11wpi, which is Double Knitting (US Light Worsted). This is great news as thats what I was aiming for.
\nOn 4mm the gauge is …sts x …rows per 4inches.<\/p>\n
My sample only weighed 4grams and gave 8meters, I didn’t think this was a large enough sample to use to calculate yardage per gram. But using it as a guide (2meters\/gram) I spun 50grams of the undyed fibre, which was 105meters.\u00a0 2.1meters\/gram. (2.3yrds\/gram)<\/p>\n
I haven’t rewritten the pattern as I tend to work the pattern out as I go, but I can still estimate the yardage based on the yardage for the original sizing and the final measures of the new garment.<\/p>\n
I’m going to work the pattern to fit 3-4yrs.
\nChest: 28inches (71cm)
\nLength: 15inches (38cm)
\nSleeve: 10inches (26cm) x 8inches<\/p>\n
I could just make a generous guess about how much bigger this is than the original size, however a bit of simple maths will give me a pretty realistic value to use to calculate yardage.\u00a0 (28×15 + 10×8)x2 = 1000. Technically this is the number of square inches of knitted fabric (it doesn’t take into account the fact the top is narrower than the bottom). For the original size : (22×14 + 7×8)x2 = 728.<\/p>\n
To work out the new yardage : ( new size \/ original size ) x original yardage.\u00a0 (1000\/728) = 1.37<\/p>\n
Main Colour (250 yards);
\nblue (90 yards);
\ngreen (90 yards);
\ncream (90 yards);
\nblack (less than 20 yards);
\npink (less than 60 yards).<\/p>\n
New yardage \/ weight<\/strong> Total weight = 360grams<\/p>\n So todays job is dying each of the colours.\u00a0 Cream is undyed, and I’ve already spun 50grams of this.<\/p>\n I still haven’t decided on a colour for the main colour, I don’t want to do tan or any shade of brown, I’m thinking a pink or lilac or purple. Suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I knitted a small swatch with the 2ply sample I had spun and washed. I didn”t bother to knit a sample with the 3ply as I preferred the 2ply and think it will offer a lighter drape in the finished fabric, also will require less spun singles. I measured the wpi of the finished sample … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,1,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMain Colour 343yrds \/ 150grams
\nblue 124yrds \/ 54grams
\ngreen 124yrs \/ 54grams
\ncream 124yrds \/ 54grams
\nblack 26yrds \/ 11.5grams
\npink 83yrds \/ 36grams.<\/p>\n