I've now started this pattern! It's fab and already from just doing the rib my needles feel like they have some weight to them! My Grandma came over for a visit the other week and we both went up to Abakhan in liverpool to get wool for our new projects. The smaller ball of wool with golden flecks was in the sale and is aWendy wool.
However the pattern is for double knit wool but the wool I chose was aran. Luckily my Grandma has a brilliant trick to convert you're pattern so you can use the aran wool. To start with you find a pattern in aran for a similar item, in my case a jumper. Find your size on this aran pattern and see how many stitches it asks you to cast on for a main piece i.e. the back. So for mine on the aran pattern it was 96 stitches to cast on for the back piece, now go back to the double knit pattern and find which size uses roughly the same amount of stitches to be cast on for the back. Mine was a couple of sizes smaller on the double knit pattern and casts on 95 stitches which is close enough as missing one stitch wont make a difference. NB. You use the needle sizes from the aran pattern. I'm not too sure how Grandma figured out how much wool to buy, I'll have to quiz her on that and post again but I think she pretty much doubled the weight. Don't quote me on that one though! I hope all that makes sense, if not drop me a line and I'll try to explain it a bit better!
P.s. I prepped this post yesterday and have since started this new aran jumper of mine and it is fabulous! I can't believe how quick it's knitting up!
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