Your Math, It Haz Fail

Son of a...

So, I decide to make these mittens. Pretty, aren't they? And they call for sportweight yarn. Most of my glove/mitten patterns call for fingering, which I do not have on hand except in black and white, but these call for sportweight. I have no less than 3 different colors of lovely free trade sportweight alpaca.

Now, the pattern does say finished size is 7.5" around the palm, and my hands are 6.75ish. But I can squeeze the gauge down to 30 stitches/4 inches, and then I'll get a nice dense winter-worthy mitten instead of "when it's chilly but still not cold enough".

Problem is, the pattern lies. Lies, I say!

Gauge is 27 stitches/4 inches. Stitch count is 64 stitches. 64 / 27 * 4 = 9.5 inches, NOT 7.5. Yes cables shrink up a bit, but surely not 25% on a pattern that open.

In order to make them fit my hands, I'd have to knit at 9.5 stitches per. I do socks with fingering at 7-8! I can't cram sportweight that tight!

Dammit. Guess that pattern gets bumped out of my queue. I have no idea what I'm going to take to knit night tomorrow now.

First Impressions - Finished and Live!

The First Impressions dresses are finished and uploaded!

The dresses work in both Poser and DAZ Studio, although Poser has additional features. (As you may or may not recall, DAZ Studio roundly kicked my ass.) The Victoria versions both support a painful (for me) number of full body morphs. Victoria 4's includes Aiko, Stephanie, Girl, and She-Freak, as well as some of their variations.

If this is your thing, you can download them from ShareCG at these links:

First Impressions Outfit for Cookie

First Impressions Outfit for Victoria 3

First Impressions Outfit for Victoria 4

Happy Rendering!