When God writes patterns, I will follow them exactly!
When God writes patterns, I will follow them exactly!
Commercial patterns are frequently done by three people. A designer will draw a picture, maybe suggest stitch paterns, and general shape; that designer may not even be a knitter. Then a knitter will execute the designers ideas. Finally, someone writes up a pattern based on the finished item. And then they go to the print department (digital transmission of files has helped eliminate some type setting mistakes).
Once printed, ideally items are knitted based on the written pattern. That is not always possible. Visit pattern/magazine sites to look for corrections. Help others by reporting errors to your yarn shop or the pattern company imvolved.
In addition, publishers want a size range. Small, medium, and large are very common in knitting patterns. One company may use a size 2 as the small (because it looks great in pictures), while another company uses a size 10, while another company wants to sell yarn and uses a size 14 as small. Before you even buy the pattern, do some math! If the gauge tells you that the garment will be so wide with so many stitches, do the math (sts per inch times the inches should equal what they tell you to cast on). Is there a size in the pattern that will give you the width you need for that garment?
Not sure what pattern God would write but this shawl is fun. Cast on one stitch and increase at the beginning of every row. I used six balls of an eyelash yarn called Peacock by Skacel and a size 11 needle. Depending on whether the long cast on edge is on top or bottom, the shawl will be a trianglular shawl or morph into a very long boa (as seen in colors hanging out of the bottom bottom).
