Knitters...

[dragovianknight]

Does US3 needles for DK weight yarn seem a bit tight to anyone else? For a sweater, I mean. I ask because I have some socks knit in sport weight on size 3s and they have a drape approximating cardboard.

Of course, I could just knit a swatch and see, I suppose.

Comments

[helens78]

That definitely seems tight to me, and I knit pretty loosely.

[dragovianknight]

It seems like a recipe for breaking another pair of wooden needles. :P

[laughingrat]

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Yeah, that's what I would use to knit socks in DK yarn. Makes a nice tight fabric that way. Seems like that would be pretty dense & inflexible for a sweater, though. What kind of fiber is it?

[dragovianknight]

Yeah, for socks it was awesome. For a sweater, though...

It's a wool/silk blend.

[laughingrat]

Huh, yeah, with the wool in it I'd think it'd still have a lot of body. Dang.

[dragovianknight]

I'll just re-figure the math for a looser gauge and improvise, if the swatch turns out too stiff.