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We've agreed on Rambling Rows in Cascade 220 (not superwash), and are zeroing in on colors. So now it just remains to ask this:
The pattern, as I said, calls for 4st/in on size 8 or 9 needles. The yarn as well suggests that this is the gauge it will knit up to (4.5st/in on #8, it says, and 5st/in on #7, so I'm going to extrapolate and say 4st/in on #9). It also calls for about 520 yards of one color, 780 yards each of three more, and 1040 yards of a fourth. Cascade 220 comes in 220-yard balls, obv. So that's three balls of the first color for 660 yards, four each of the next three for 880 yards apiece, and five yards of the last one for 1100 yards. This should yield a blanket 5'x6', or so I am told.
SO, given that I knit fairly tightly and may therefore find it prudent to go down a needle size and add a few stitches to every. single. row to get back the size I think I'm likely to lose, DO YOU THINK the extra 140/100/60 yards will be enough, or should I order an extra skein (probably just of the last color) to be safe?
The pattern, as I said, calls for 4st/in on size 8 or 9 needles. The yarn as well suggests that this is the gauge it will knit up to (4.5st/in on #8, it says, and 5st/in on #7, so I'm going to extrapolate and say 4st/in on #9). It also calls for about 520 yards of one color, 780 yards each of three more, and 1040 yards of a fourth. Cascade 220 comes in 220-yard balls, obv. So that's three balls of the first color for 660 yards, four each of the next three for 880 yards apiece, and five yards of the last one for 1100 yards. This should yield a blanket 5'x6', or so I am told.
SO, given that I knit fairly tightly and may therefore find it prudent to go down a needle size and add a few stitches to every. single. row to get back the size I think I'm likely to lose, DO YOU THINK the extra 140/100/60 yards will be enough, or should I order an extra skein (probably just of the last color) to be safe?
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