If you asked me, I would answer that there are no ‘rules’ in knitting. You can do (knit) whatever you want and do it any style you like.
However, there are rules around the knitting that I highly recommend to follow. Especially the one I am going to talk about today.
I don’t do Math well. Really, ask me about calculus of probabilities, graphs with x, y and z thingies going on, anything more complicated than the multiplication table, and my eyes glaze over. Then again, there is one rule I can handle, one that gets used every day of my knitting life, one I cannot do without:
The Rule Of Three.
That’s my kind of math.
Here I pick up where I left off last week. Remember the scale? So you just found out that you have 67 grams left over, and your new pattern asks for 250 yds of yarn. If you have the information from the label how many yards are in 100 grams of yarn, you totally can figure that out!
100 grams = 400 yds
67 grams = x
Ok, you say, but how do I get x? Here is where you have to remember your school days, and how to use the Rule Of Three:
67 times 400 divided by 100 = 268, which is x, meaning you just figured out that you have enough yarn.
Check here to make it real easy.
Rule Of Three – useful in oh, so many ways.
Happy knitting, as ever!