A do-it-yourself thing is always a favorite. Clothes from the store, even the most fashionable and high quality, will never give so much emotion. And no wonder. After all, how much soul and labor is invested in each connected row. But in order for a thing to please and give aesthetic pleasure, you need to work hard on its execution. The knitting should be neat and even, as if the clothes were knitted on a machine. To achieve this, at the initial stage of work, it is necessary to correctly determine the size of the knitting needles.
It is necessary
Knitting
Instructions
Step 1
The opinion that the thickness of the needles should correspond to the thickness of the yarn is not entirely accurate. Much depends on what product is in the idea. Openwork things, for example, are knitted with thicker knitting needles. But if the product should be dense and not stretch, then knitting needles with a smaller diameter will do. In addition, each of the craftswomen knits in her own way: some tightly, others more freely.
Step 2
The surest way to determine the size of your knitting needles is to do a trial knitting. It is enough to knit a little with some knitting needles, and then with others and draw conclusions. If you get a tight knit, replace the knitting needles with those that are thicker. If the canvas is loose and stretched, thin knitting needles are needed. And only when the knitted fabric turns out to be soft, elastic, holds the pattern and shape well - it means that the knitting needles are selected correctly.
Step 3
However, only an experienced knitter can select knitting needles in this way. In general, in needlework, a lot comes on a whim, but for this you need to connect not one, and not two things. For beginners, you should understand that all knitting needles have their own number - from 1 to 9, indicating the diameter of the knitting needle in millimeters. The step of the numbers is 0.25 millimeters. It looks like this: 1; 1, 25; fifteen; 1.75; 2; 2, 25; 2, 5; 2.75; 3 … And so on until the 9th issue.
Step 4
If there is no number on the needle, it can be easily calculated using a ruler or graph paper. Knitting needles should be 1, 5-2 times thicker than threads. The composition of the yarn, the length of the threads and their number are usually indicated on the package. The yarn number is expressed as a fractional number. The first number is the thread thickness (the higher the number, the thinner the yarn), and the second indicates how many threads the yarn is made of.
Step 5
Often the product is knitted with two types of knitting needles. Elastic bands, planks, racks are made with knitting needles half the number or one number less than those with which the main fabric is knitted. Therefore, seriously carried away by knitting, you need to purchase all the numbers of knitting needles. And then knitting will only bring pleasure, and the knitted things will be smooth, even and neat.
