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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.
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.
