When The Going Gets Tough....
The tough finish an easy scarf: and start a new sweater: This is going to be a cotton tank top, and I would be providing a link to the pattern if I weren't such a nice person. It's a free pattern, and it's always nice when people decide to share their work for free with the world. I get that. And it's a cute tank top, which I also appreciate. BUT the stated gauge is 5.3 stitches to the inch using the pattern stitch. 5.3 stitches to the inch is insane enough, and generally no one does that, but the pattern has a double decrease separated by the 2 YOs by 5 stitches, which pulls the knitted stitches to a diagonal to form a wavy edge. So....our gauge is now 5.3 stitches over a wavy pattern, and if one just measures the stitches themselves, they are at an angle and don't accurately represent the width of the stitches. The solution? Knit for a while, slide all 180+ stitches onto a piece of yarn and measure to make sure that the darn thing...