Methods and formulas
Each method page explains one formula in depth and lists the calculators that use it.
Methods and formulas
- Spacing increases and decreases evenlyHow increases and decreases are spread evenly across a row or round: the stitches each technique uses, the groups, and where the leftover stitches go.
- Pick-up rates: stitch gauge over row gaugeWhy stitches are picked up at a rate along an edge, how the rate follows from your stitch and row gauge, and how the total is fitted to a rib multiple.
- Gauge, stitch counts and finished sizeHow a swatch turns into stitches to cast on and rows to knit, and how a different gauge changes the size a pattern's stitch counts make, with charts.
- Yarn substitution: length, skeins and weightHow to work out the skeins of a substitute yarn from the length a pattern needs, why yards and meters must not be mixed, and what the weights tell you.