Knitters: Help please!

crackerjackprinter

I'm working on a pair of sheepy pants medium longies that are supposed to have a 16-18" hip.  The waist (measured on the cable portion of the needles) is 10, maybe 11".  Do I need to frog AGAIN?  DS' waist is 15"...it stretches to that but I don't know that he'd have much longer to wear them then.  My gauge is 5.5 sts instead of the 5 it was last time I started...how the heck am I supposed to get it right with it constantly changing?

I guess I'm wondering if starting on the body will stretch it out more or if I'm screwed...I'm halfway done with the ribbing and don't have time for this sh!t!

Genevieved

I'm still not great with adjusting for gauge and such, however when I made a sheepy soaker for DD I was worried the waist wasn't going to be big enough and that I had the gauge off.  However when I put them on the bigger needles for the hips the gauge was right maybe that is because stitches  are added in the last row before going to the larger needles. 

I figured I shouldn't panic and just keep going to see how it turns out (It was my first one) and the waist stretched just fine and the soaker fit her perfect.  I did the small size which was a 14-16" hip and she was 14.5".  I'm not sure what it was measuring on the needles but it looked really small.

I don't know if this helpful, because it was my first one I figured I should see how it went first.  As I know things always look smaller on needle and I didn't want the waist to be to big on the needle and have no stretch to it.

Good Luck

crackerjackprinter

Genevieved:

I'm still not great with adjusting for gauge and such, however when I made a sheepy soaker for DD I was worried the waist wasn't going to be big enough and that I had the gauge off.  However when I put them on the bigger needles for the hips the gauge was right maybe that is because stitches  are added in the last row before going to the larger needles. 

I figured I shouldn't panic and just keep going to see how it turns out (It was my first one) and the waist stretched just fine and the soaker fit her perfect.  I did the small size which was a 14-16" hip and she was 14.5".  I'm not sure what it was measuring on the needles but it looked really small.

I don't know if this helpful, because it was my first one I figured I should see how it went first.  As I know things always look smaller on needle and I didn't want the waist to be to big on the needle and have no stretch to it.

Good Luck

Thanks!  I compared it to the NB longies waistband that I had made (and had not frogged yet) and they were identical, so I frogged and restarted based on my new gauge.  Much better now.  I'd rather them be too big than too small!