Gauge Question

[Karen C.]

I was wondering....I purchased a kit from Herrschner's for a ripple afghan. Normally, I don't concern myself with gauge for such a project, but since it's a kit with a certain amount of yarn, I thought I would ask for some clarity about the gauge that's given in the pattern.

The stitches used are chain, single crochet, slip stitch, half double crochet and double crochet. The gauge states that 14 sts=4". My question is which stitch to use for the swatch? I like when the pattern says specifically what stitch to use and I love it when they have some instructions for gauge;)

[Crocus58]

Wow - that's pretty vague. The way I read it, I'd assume the 14 stitches that equal 4" is horizontal. Could you do a swatch in pattern and measure that?

[Karen C.]

Wow - that's pretty vague. The way I read it, I'd assume the 14 stitches that equal 4" is horizontal. Could you do a swatch in pattern and measure that?

I believe this is the stitch count versus row count, but I'd love to know if it would matter which stitch I used; dc, sc, hdc or not? Maybe it doesn't matter, but I thought I'd ask :)

[jleinhauser]

It doesn't really matter which stitch, as long as you achieve the specified gauge. It might be a good idea to do the gauge swatch in the stitch used most in the afghan though. But they are all pretty much the same width.

And you are very smart to be sure of your gauge when doing a kit. If your gague is way off you may indeed run out of yarn,

Jean Leinhauser

Jean Leinhauser

[lizdini]

I would assume single crochet. but it's just a guess, most of the patterns I've seen that don't say "in pattern" say "sc" when talking about gage.

[Karen C.]

It doesn't really matter which stitch, as long as you achieve the specified gauge. It might be a good idea to do the gauge swatch in the stitch used most in the afghan though. But they are all pretty much the same width.

And you are very smart to be sure of your gauge when doing a kit. If your gague is way off you may indeed run out of yarn,

Jean Leinhauser

Jean Leinhauser

Thanks Jean, I think I'll give it a try. The afghan is done in rounds and I would have felt more comfortable had the pattern read X amt of rounds = 4". However, the pattern appears to be made up of mostly dc's, so I will do the swatch in dc's. Thanks everyone for your comments.