How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

Dana_lear — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:55:21 GMT

Knitting Fiends decrease generator gives me ridiculous results, not even at all. For example, I want to decrease <b>evenly</b> from 406 to 232 sts. The calculator tells me to k2tog/k1 x30; k2tog x112; k2tog/k1 x30 - <i>how is that even?</i>

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

knitterie — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:21:58 GMT

There's an App for that

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

dj12116 — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:40:06 GMT

I tried the stitch calculator but found that the number of stitches after the increases is different in the examples. The "unbalanced" version comes out right, but with the "balanced" version you end up with too many stitches. Am I reading the sample wrong???

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

Ginakandy — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:03:12 GMT

Hi,

I tried opening the site but it says "Access restricted"

Georgina

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

grammyknits — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:15:24 GMT

I have always used Cheryl Brunette's "more or less right formula" from Sweater 101

all increases/decreases on sleeves or above ribbing. Nice to have options, though.

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

barbararall — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:23:46 GMT

I cringe also, but I tend to chalk it up to the pattern designer's laziness. Why not figure it out for each size and include it in the pattern.

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

Oniya — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:14:09 GMT

Maybe I'm an atypical female, but - why not just use simple division? I haven't seen many patterns where the increase/decrease is more than 10 in a row/round, so you don't even have to break out the /long/ division.

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

KimberleyC — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:09:03 GMT

What a tremendous resource. Thanks for sharing! Thanks too, for those provided information on the app.

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

Myrnaleerdh — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:41:56 GMT

There is a great Apple app called knit evenly calculator .

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

Brigid01 — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:04:46 GMT

Thank you so much.

I really don't see why the authors don't explain better.

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

solidbunnyknits — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:36:09 GMT

Thank heavens!

Yay! I can't wait to bookmark this...a knitter friend and I were JUST talking about this problem the other day.

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

bambiperry — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:29:37 GMT

THANK YOU!!!

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

jhunt@48 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:45:33 GMT

There's also a great app called "KnitEvenly" that does all the calculating you'll need for increasing, decreasing, on a flat piece or in the round, and with 2 options: simpler and easier to remember or more evenly distributed. Love it!

re: How to Knit: Increasing (or Decreasing) Evenly Across a Row

MysticCelt — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:39:46 GMT

Thanks for that, it's a great idea. I always end up with graph paper trying to work mine out.