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May. 9th, 2004 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflySo in this post here I'd complained about having done one sock on wooden DPNs for the cuff but the metal circs for the foot, and then the circs were busy when I got to the 2nd sock, and I used the DPNs on down the foot - and the foot's knitted too loose, and I'll have to frog it.
Well, I thought the differences were due to wooden versus metal and DPNs versus circs. Turns out that's not all. The circs were the metal Inox express ones - which I never bought, Mom traded me those for the size 1 Addi Turbo circs we'd bought me to start sock knitting with, and they turned out to be too small, as I knit really tight. I'd thought of them as size 3's. I found out today that they're not, really. Saw them for sale on a site I'm shopping on, listed as size 2-3. Turns out they're 3 mm. Size 2 is 2.75 mm, size 3 is 3.25 mm. So these are halfway between size 2 and size 3. This would explain why the size 3 wooden DPNs did not get as tight a gauge!
I suppose this is sure going to build brand loyalty - these are the needles I do almost all of my sock-weight yarn knitting with, and I get a gauge that I've been quite happy with, but it means it's going to be harder for me to use any other needles!
Well, I thought the differences were due to wooden versus metal and DPNs versus circs. Turns out that's not all. The circs were the metal Inox express ones - which I never bought, Mom traded me those for the size 1 Addi Turbo circs we'd bought me to start sock knitting with, and they turned out to be too small, as I knit really tight. I'd thought of them as size 3's. I found out today that they're not, really. Saw them for sale on a site I'm shopping on, listed as size 2-3. Turns out they're 3 mm. Size 2 is 2.75 mm, size 3 is 3.25 mm. So these are halfway between size 2 and size 3. This would explain why the size 3 wooden DPNs did not get as tight a gauge!
I suppose this is sure going to build brand loyalty - these are the needles I do almost all of my sock-weight yarn knitting with, and I get a gauge that I've been quite happy with, but it means it's going to be harder for me to use any other needles!