But It Wasn't The Drugs!
So yesterday, I was thrilled to use up the first ball of yarn on the new yellow sweater, but it just seemed really WIDE. "Impossible!" I kept telling myself. I had checked gauge very, VERY carefully because I've been on pain pills all weekend and was being very careful to double-check anything I was doing. The TOTAL circumference of the sweater for a medium should be 41 inches. Maybe a little bigger than I'd like, but doable. So I measured. MY sweater would end up 45 inches around. ??????? Just on a whim, I decided to check the pattern. The required gauge was 25 stitches to 4.5 inches in the chevron pattern stitch. Fine, that's what I had. Then the pattern calls for 127 stitches cast on. Now I'm on drugs, but I have a calculator. By my figures: 127 stitches divided by 25 stitches is 5.08. If you multiply that by the 4.5 inch gauge, that makes each piece 22.86 inches , for a sweater circumference of anyone ge...