Dirtbunny has completed 99 repeats of the cable and lace panel for her sweater. According to the pattern directions, she is supposed to do 124 repeats.
The point here is to end up with a lace panel that is long enough to engirth the Bunny while simultaneously ending up with a perfect 250 selvage stitches to pick up.
Bunny has a lace panel that is long enough, but only 200 selvage stitches.
[Bunny takes a long and nervous pull from her beer. Naturally, she dribbles some of it down her front.]
Now Bunny is no super-genius like her brother Aaron, but she is good at math. Bunny has calculated that if she picks up five stitches from every four selvage stitches, she will end up with a magical 250 stitches.
Or she can continue to follow the pattern and make a lace panel that will encircle the Bunny by about 130%.
[Bunny has some more beer.]
Patterns lie. Gauge swatches lie. Math does not lie.
[Bunny has some more beer and mulls over the options.]
Bunny decides to go for it and deviate from the pattern in favor of math. The worst that can happen is she'll fuck it up. There's no jail for bad row gauge.
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Beer + Math = SUCCESS!!!!!!!
If you knit don't drink! Isn't this taught in high school anymore.
Beer drinking is properly reserved for those times in life when you wish to be one with nature such as when you are sitting around in your underwear watching the Terps or trying to forget another memorable victory of the Cowgirls over the Snyderettes.
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