Many of you do more stranded projects than I do so maybe you have some advice.?

I am trying to calculate?how many yards of two colors I need to spin for a sweater. I've done sample skeins, swatched, measured pre- and post-wash gauges. So far so good. The motifs are from EZ's Shaded Aspen Leaf sweater from Knitting Workshop. I am only using the motifs. The shape of the?sweater isn't attractive to me.

There is a gray MC and a cream CC. Per Sweater Wizard, I need 1125 yds for the entire sweater at that gauge. It is 5 spi and slightly under 5 rpi but I've calculated?at 5 spi and 5 rpi.?

Now, assuming there I need 20% less CC due to the bands and picking up and possibly having some. plain areas where?I am shaping. Do I need 1125 yds in total and how do I divide

500 yds of CC and 625 yds of MC is a 80/100 split

Or do I need 1125 yds of MC and 900 yds of CC? - This just seems wrong to me but I don't know.

There aren't too many projects on Ravelry that have been completed and have yarn quantities listed for this pattern. But the 80/100 split looks about right - that project used 5 skeins of the MC and 4 of the CC in a DK weight yarn which is what I'm getting. Another project has double the amount of yarn but she's made a tunic. She also doesn't split out the quantity between the colors.?

?- pattern

I looked up Janine's book but since she is talking about FI with multiple colors, she is giving different options for calculating yardage of each color so it is more work than it is worth for a single color.

In my swatch, which had garter st borders in the MC only, I used 1/3 the CC but I think that is too low for an all-over stranded pattern.

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Jaya

I'll start with ... the colors in the photos of all-over stranding ... look fairly balanced.
I would say go with the 1125 and 900 ... because you are dragging both colors along for the ride ... and yes, there are some areas of MC only :-)

For intarsia it would be more like 625?+ 500 because it is one color at a time.

erica in theWest is BurningLand?

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 6:29 AM Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote:

Many of you do more stranded projects than I do so maybe you have some advice.?

I am trying to calculate?how many yards of two colors I need to spin for a sweater. I've done sample skeins, swatched, measured pre- and post-wash gauges. So far so good. The motifs are from EZ's Shaded Aspen Leaf sweater from Knitting Workshop. I am only using the motifs. The shape of the?sweater isn't attractive to me.

There is a gray MC and a cream CC. Per Sweater Wizard, I need 1125 yds for the entire sweater at that gauge. It is 5 spi and slightly under 5 rpi but I've calculated?at 5 spi and 5 rpi.?

Now, assuming there I need 20% less CC due to the bands and picking up and possibly having some. plain areas where?I am shaping. Do I need 1125 yds in total and how do I divide

500 yds of CC and 625 yds of MC is a 80/100 split

Or do I need 1125 yds of MC and 900 yds of CC? - This just seems wrong to me but I don't know.

There aren't too many projects on Ravelry that have been completed and have yarn quantities listed for this pattern. But the 80/100 split looks about right - that project used 5 skeins of the MC and 4 of the CC in a DK weight yarn which is what I'm getting. Another project has double the amount of yarn but she's made a tunic. She also doesn't split out the quantity between the colors.?

?- pattern

I looked up Janine's book but since she is talking about FI with multiple colors, she is giving different options for calculating yardage of each color so it is more work than it is worth for a single color.

In my swatch, which had garter st borders in the MC only, I used 1/3 the CC but I think that is too low for an all-over stranded pattern.

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Jaya

This is how I’d do it. ?

?I’d spin 700 yards of each color. ?

Shazham!!! ? You for sure have enough!!? And can make a matching hat with the leftovers. ?

You know me, go all in, baybae!!

Connie

On Jun 22, 2020, at 10:28 AM, erica <knitzz@...> wrote:

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I'll start with ... the colors in the photos of all-over stranding ... look fairly balanced.
I would say go with the 1125 and 900 ... because you are dragging both colors along for the ride ... and yes, there are some areas of MC only :-)

For intarsia it would be more like 625?+ 500 because it is one color at a time.

erica in theWest is BurningLand?

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 6:29 AM Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote:

Many of you do more stranded projects than I do so maybe you have some advice.?

I am trying to calculate?how many yards of two colors I need to spin for a sweater. I've done sample skeins, swatched, measured pre- and post-wash gauges. So far so good. The motifs are from EZ's Shaded Aspen Leaf sweater from Knitting Workshop. I am only using the motifs. The shape of the?sweater isn't attractive to me.

There is a gray MC and a cream CC. Per Sweater Wizard, I need 1125 yds for the entire sweater at that gauge. It is 5 spi and slightly under 5 rpi but I've calculated?at 5 spi and 5 rpi.?

Now, assuming there I need 20% less CC due to the bands and picking up and possibly having some. plain areas where?I am shaping. Do I need 1125 yds in total and how do I divide

500 yds of CC and 625 yds of MC is a 80/100 split

Or do I need 1125 yds of MC and 900 yds of CC? - This just seems wrong to me but I don't know.

There aren't too many projects on Ravelry that have been completed and have yarn quantities listed for this pattern. But the 80/100 split looks about right - that project used 5 skeins of the MC and 4 of the CC in a DK weight yarn which is what I'm getting. Another project has double the amount of yarn but she's made a tunic. She also doesn't split out the quantity between the colors.?

?- pattern

I looked up Janine's book but since she is talking about FI with multiple colors, she is giving different options for calculating yardage of each color so it is more work than it is worth for a single color.

In my swatch, which had garter st borders in the MC only, I used 1/3 the CC but I think that is too low for an all-over stranded pattern.

--

Jaya