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Posted by on March 22, 2008, 12:25 am
> Your gauge knitting stockinette in the round (where all stitches are knit)=
> is different from your gauge knitting flat with the same needles and same
> yarn, because every other row is a purl row, and your gauge is very likely=
> different on purl stitches than on knit stitches.
>
> That's the official story. Sometimes I live dangerously and knit a flat
> swatch, but I have only myself to blame when it doesn't work out.
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> Georgia
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> > My sock pattern I was planning on using stated that I needed to get gaug=
e
> by
> > knitting a swatch in stocking stitch in the round. =A0The sock itself is=
> *not*
> > knitted in stocking stitch but is said to be a "stretchy" stitch design.=
> My
> > question is really, why must I knit my gauge swatch in the round instead=
> of
> > just flat?
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> > thanks!
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> > lisa
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> > --
> > The things that come to those who wait will be the scraggly junk left by=
> > those who got there first.- Hide quoted text -
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I have found that a guague in the round is , strangely enough a bit
different than a flat one ,, as in the rounds it sort of works to both
sides ...i have no other explanantion .
Ps my late mother and me when trying to knit the same , had to take
different sizes for plain knitting and same sizes for patterns ??????
mirjam
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