When a pattern work should measure 13 inches should you measure with piece laying flat ir stretch like garment would be after blocking. For instance the picture I’ve added
With a lacy pattern like this it would be good to stretch it out a bit to get a measure close to the pattern measure. The lace pattern is certainly going to open out on blocking.
If you started with a swatch you could measure it before and after blocking to get an estimate of how much the pattern will stretch once blocked.
It’s very pretty knitting. What are you making?
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Working on this top right now. I could have block swatch but pattern said get gauge in stockinette stitch and garner stitch
Lovely pattern. You can give a stretch to what you think you’ll like for the lace pattern. It looks pretty flat in the photos.
You can also measure the length that you would like for this part of the pattern, apart from the pattern length. Still give a bit of stretch when you measure this.
Maybe you can help with 1 more question… it’s then neckline shaping start it says 1 stitch decrease every other row. Would I decrease and beginning of row and at end of the same row? Then do normal row then repeat decrease row?
Is this the direction? It comes almost at the end of the directions for the Top and just a line or two before the directions for the Back Piece:
“Now dec 1 st for neck towards mid front each side (dec by K tog the 2 first sts) and repeat the dec on every other row a total of 18-19-20-22-23-24 times.” Yes, for this dec at the beginning and end of row.
Thanks you are always a wealth of knowledge. So just to be clear decrease at beginning and end of row then skip on next for 20 times. Ten on each side?
Decrease at the beginning and at the end of every other row. So dec at the beginning of row, decrease at end of row then work the next row with no decreases. For the third size thats 20 repeats or 20sts dec on each side (40sts dec total).
Thank you
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