Hiya everybody,
My fiancée found a pattern for a dress that she’s very excited to make for our wedding, but has been having a hard time interpreting parts of it (Possibly partly because the pattern isn’t originally written in English). She’s also having a hard time figuring out how much yarn to buy for it: people who have made it have reported using anywhere from 2,500 yards to over 6,000. She hasn’t worked from patterns much before, and has never made a project this big before, so she’s feeling pretty nervous about it all round.
I don’t know if it’s appropriate to post images of a paid pattern in a forum, but would it be okay to post sections that she’s confused by, and would anyone mind clarifying them for her?
Second question, about estimating total yardage: I’ve never knitted, but would it make sense to count up all the stitches, do a test swatch to figure out the stitches per yard with the weight of yarn and stitch she’s using (I think the pattern just uses one basic stitch, pretty much), and then divide the total stitches in the pattern by the stitches per yard in her test to get a rough total yardage?
Hope that all made sense. Thank you so much for any help you can offer!