Thursday, July 28, 2016

Rushen Knitting

There has been some discussion here about how to knit for cold weather.  : )

Here is my "Rushen" solution.

For patknitter, it is done with US 3 knitting needles.
For purplespirit1, it is warm enough for snow camping in the Gulag.





 The yarn is Wool-Ease thick and quick by Lion brand. Suggested gauge is 9 stitches per 4 inches and 12 rows, using 9 mm needles. My gauge using US 3 (3 mm)   is 18 s per 4 inch by 26 r per 4 inches.

It weatherproof, and it is fast to knit.  An object knit from this yarn and at this gauge is well suited for a movie set, as it is warm enough for Siberia.  However, it is not durable enough for a serious tour of the Gulag.  In the long term, knitting real 10-ply saves knitting time.  Aside from swatches such as above, I do not knit objects from such yarns, because it is too fragile.  On the other hand I think you will find that purplespirit1 and patknitter have trouble knitting even such little swatches.  They do not have the right tools.

3 comments:

purplespirit1 said...

I'm not sure what the point of this post is. Great - you can knit a tight swatch with thick yarn. So? Any knitter can do that.

I'm confused as why you think knitting thick yarn with thinner needles to make a tighter swatch is somehow a revolutionary idea.

Is the point that you've made a swatch somehow meant to debunk what I've been doing professionally for half my life?

Aaron said...

A word play on the poor quality of consumer goods in some places, and later the advantages of traditional 10-ply Aran yarns.

purplespirit1 said...

Oh, what a waste of a post, Aaron. :( So sad. Even someone like you is better than this.