Knitting: Anyone wanna make an app for that?

[neadods]

I've just seen an advertisement for the Knittrick app which works out gauge changes and pattern repeats.

This is almost-but-not-quite the app I've been dreaming of. The app I've been dreaming of lets you put in your gauge and you say "I want a [square, rectangle] of x by y using this needle and it says "with your gauge, cast on # stitches, work # rows and each shape will take this much yarn."

It seems to me that I ought to be able to munge an app like that out of a spreadsheet with embedded equations. I just don't know how to do it. I know the knowns: for a #7 needle, I get 4.5 stitches per inch, 9 rows per inch, and .07 inches of yarn per stitch. I can work out yardages and sizes with a calculator, if laboriously. I just don't know how to automate that.

Comments

[xwingace]

I can't make an app. I *might* be able to make a spreadsheet, though. I'd even be willing to try, just for kicks :-)

I'd have to have more than just the one data point, though, unless you're really only interested in this gauge needle. Best would be these kinds of measurements for every needle gauge, or at least one more and then assuming the relation is linear.

I suspect the kind of stitch and weight of yarn may also make something of a difference?

XWA

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I suspect the kind of stitch and weight of yarn may also make something of a difference

Probably, but I don't do enough "fancy work" to really worry about that.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

I think you need one more data point - if you're anything like me, you only get that gauge with a #7 needle given a particular weight of yarn.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

True, but I tend to stick with roughly the same gauge of worsted.