Chapter 6. How to match material, pattern, gauges properly when design your own Ugly Christmas Sweater?

When starting designs of your own Ugly Christmas Sweater its necessary to match right material with gauge. In above Chapter 4, we discussed the most popular patterns for Christmas Sweater Custom;

And in above Chapter 5, we learned best knitting gauges for Personalized Ugly Christmas Sweaters. Now, its time to match material and gauge properly when design your own Ugly Christmas Sweater.

The suitable yarn size to fit gauge of Ugly Christmas Sweater knitting machines comes as below:

1. 1.5gg, matches 1/1 ~ 1/1.5 yarn size;
   
2. 3gg, matches 1/2 ~1/3 yarn size;
   
3. 5gg, matches 1/15~1/20 yarn size;
   
4. 7gg/9gg, matches 1/21~1/28 yarn size;
   
5. 12gg, matches 2/28~2/32 yarn size;
   
6. 14gg, matches 2/40 yarn size;
   
7. 16gg, matches 2/60 yarn size;
   
8. 18gg, matches 2/80~2/120 yarn size;

Well, further questions appears, what does yarn size of 1/1, 1/1.5, 2/28, 2/32 etc.. means?? Let’s explain:

When we zoom a yarn, we can see it like below:

Now, let’s turn to inner structure of computer knitting machines, let’s take Stoll computer knitting machine as example, We can see inner is needle board first, then needles been equipped on needle board evenly.

In Chapter 5, we noted the gauge mentioned on Christmas Sweaters, which represents the number of threads that are to be knitted in one inch of the knitting machine. That’s to say, there will be 12 knitting needles in one inch to guide the yarns if it's 12gg. This way, the strings have to be of suitable size to be knitted by the needles, others it's not workable.

Now, we have an important conclusion: The size of the needle hook determines the size of the yarn. Yarn suppliers have to develop threads according to the knitting machines!

Why not knitting machines manufacturer adjust their needle sizes according to the yarns?

The answer is that machines are thousands more expensive than raw materials. It's much easier and cheaper to adjust yarn size than machines and needles!

So, the correct order is to consider gauge [ thickness] when designing your own Ugly Christmas Sweater before considering the yarn size!


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