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Thursday, 15. June 2006
Number crunching.
knitting_keeps_me_sane, 13:38h
Rosebud is progressing swimmingly, but I wouldnt be me if I hadnt sat and crunched numbers all the while knitting her.
Care to be let in on it?
Well, let us start with the beginning. I CO 119 stitches and knit 117 ridges = 234 rows. This means I knit 27846 stitches for the center square! Now, on a good day I can average 5000 stitches (because daily living is a good bit more complicated for me than others - when I was in school I would do school and sit exhausted in front of the computer for the rest of the day). I could have knit the center square in 6 days, but it took me more like 6 weeks (I blame the Rainbow Pi and.. uhm... a knitting slump).
Next came picking up 118 stitches for each border, of which I have 4. I knit 94 rows on the border, adding 4 stitches every row in average. This leaves me with: 15000 stitches in each border, or 60.000 stitches in the whole border. ( I triplechecked this number. It is astonishing).
After almost choking on this large number (The Rainbow Pi had 76.000 stitches in the wole thing, Rosebud is on 88216 and counting), I now have knit 25 border repeats of 124 = 12 rows for one repeat and 21 stitches in average = 252 stitches for one repeat, and 6300 for 25 repeats. I will need 31.248 in all, leaving me with 24.948 stitches still to be knit.
When I am finished, this shawl will have 119464 stitches in it, beat that!
Enough numbers, I just want to point out that, if counting stitches, i am at 73% :)
Not further? Ashaming.... (I must knit the planned 10 repeats more today, then I have 76%! And one side of the shawl, of course.) Of course I didnt get anything knitted! The rest of the day somehow went down the drain, but luckily the shawl didnt run away, and is still there to be knitted on tomorrow.
Later, when my mother came home, I informed her of all those numbers - from memory - and she just laughed at me, insinuating that I might have a slight obsession with numbers (except for "vital" numbers like Phone numbers and Birthdays). Harumph... Obsessed... Nobody needs to be obsessed to know that numbers are damn usefull.
Have a really nice day
Lene
Care to be let in on it?
Well, let us start with the beginning. I CO 119 stitches and knit 117 ridges = 234 rows. This means I knit 27846 stitches for the center square! Now, on a good day I can average 5000 stitches (because daily living is a good bit more complicated for me than others - when I was in school I would do school and sit exhausted in front of the computer for the rest of the day). I could have knit the center square in 6 days, but it took me more like 6 weeks (I blame the Rainbow Pi and.. uhm... a knitting slump).
Next came picking up 118 stitches for each border, of which I have 4. I knit 94 rows on the border, adding 4 stitches every row in average. This leaves me with: 15000 stitches in each border, or 60.000 stitches in the whole border. ( I triplechecked this number. It is astonishing).
After almost choking on this large number (The Rainbow Pi had 76.000 stitches in the wole thing, Rosebud is on 88216 and counting), I now have knit 25 border repeats of 124 = 12 rows for one repeat and 21 stitches in average = 252 stitches for one repeat, and 6300 for 25 repeats. I will need 31.248 in all, leaving me with 24.948 stitches still to be knit.
When I am finished, this shawl will have 119464 stitches in it, beat that!
Enough numbers, I just want to point out that, if counting stitches, i am at 73% :)
Not further? Ashaming.... (I must knit the planned 10 repeats more today, then I have 76%! And one side of the shawl, of course.) Of course I didnt get anything knitted! The rest of the day somehow went down the drain, but luckily the shawl didnt run away, and is still there to be knitted on tomorrow.
Later, when my mother came home, I informed her of all those numbers - from memory - and she just laughed at me, insinuating that I might have a slight obsession with numbers (except for "vital" numbers like Phone numbers and Birthdays). Harumph... Obsessed... Nobody needs to be obsessed to know that numbers are damn usefull.
Have a really nice day
Lene
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