Crotchety with the crochet…
I have a knitting pattern for a wrap over cardi taht I want to make for me. i have yarn ready for it. Then I realised I don’t have the right size pins and wondered about crocheting it instead. No problem! Found a website explaining how to convert patterns between knitting and crochet and set to with a gauge square. Using the right sized hook for the yarn and the right number of stitches and double crochet (or single crochet if you are in the US) for the prescribed number of rows (aparently 1 row of dc=2 knitted rows) I get a gauge that is roughly 1 inch too wide but 2 inches too short, the piece is also really hard, as in it doesn’t drape and feels nasty etc not as in difficult to do.
So I’m off to do a gauge square now with a big hook (cos I don’t have enythig in between a 5.5 and an 8mm) and see how that feels on the grounds that a bit of extra width in the pattern I can live with, I have a little extra width of my own to contend with you understand…. and if using an 8mm hook gets something like the right height and any sort of drape I’ve won and if not I’m off to the shops for 5.5mm pins to knit it after all!!!! (or I’ll see how it knits up on 6mm pins, what’s 0.5mm between friends after all…)
I have some knitting needles you could possibly borrow…
Comment by Kirsty — October 27, 2005 @ 4:11 pm
And I have a range of crochet hooks
Comment by jax — October 27, 2005 @ 7:49 pm