| Knitty sizing changes |
[Jan. 26th, 2006|09:12 pm] |
Knitty has edited their submission guidelines. It used to be that you could use "XXL" to refer to whatever you wanted; now you have to use "XXL" to mean "designed to fit a woman with a 48-50'' bust. They're taking their definitions from Yarnstandards.com. This means that sizing will be standardized from pattern to pattern, and that nobody who thinks of themselves as "XXL" will be disappointed at discovering a pattern only goes up to XXL and the designer thinks XXL means a 40'' bust. A number of people in the online knitting community are quite pleased about this.
I'm not.
I don't know what size I "should" be. Any decent pattern will provide the actual finished measurements as well as the size labels, and I use that. I just take my bust measurement, add 1'' or 2'' or however much ease I want, and find the appropriate size. If that comes out to "S" or "M" or "XXXXL", fine, whatever, I use that letter for that pattern. I can live with using a different letter for a different pattern. So there's no way in which standardizing sizes makes things better for me.
And I can see how it makes it worse.
Their bust sizing chart goes up 4'' per size: S is 4'' bigger than XS, and 4'' smaller than M. On the other hand, their fit instructions say that a close-fitting pullover should have 1-2'' of ease.
So suppose I make a pullover following these guidelines. Then my S will have a 35'' bust, and therefore fit someone with a 33-34'' bust. My M will have a 39'' bust, fitting people with 37-38'' busts.
What on earth does someone with a 35'' bust make?
Knitty's new instructions force their pattern designers to do one of the following two things. Either: every single pattern will need at least a 4'' range in how much ease is acceptable (um, no) or will have to use sizes like "S½", which is silly and confusing. |
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| Mary's sweater |
[Jan. 30th, 2005|02:32 pm] |
Finished! Actually, finished about a week ago. I got the ends all worked in around midnight of Saturday the 22nd, blocked it the next day, and gave it to her yesterday. I started Josh's sweater the next day or so, and I'm decently far into it. He wants the same front pattern and a different sleeve pattern, which makes the design a lot easier.
I should get pictures at some point. My mom wanted to see the finished result, since I did the first half of it in Berkeley over Christmas and she liked the way it looked. Also, I've been thinking of submitting it for publication at some point, and for that I'd need some really good pictures. |
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| Penguin |
[Jan. 4th, 2005|10:19 pm] |
Pasha from Knitty
( Pictures )
I got all the knitting for this guy done in a day. Three movies or so, I believe. The seaming got done the next morning.
Yarns used: Schachenmayr Extra (100% wool) in yellow, Dale of Norway Svale (50% cotton, 40% viscose, 10% silk) in white and purple. I used less (but not a lot less) than half a skein (50 grams/104 meters) of white and purple, and not much yellow at all. I also used 2.75mm needles. |
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