[aisraeltax]

i am in the middle of knitting a pair of soakers or longies, depending on the answers i get to this question.

i purchased 3 skeins of yarn thinking that it would be enough to do the longies. well, i have now used 2 skeins and am about to start the third skein. im worried about whether or not one skein is going to be enough to do both legs. i have to knit 8 inches for the "body" and then do the legs (probably 5 or 6 inches, not sure since i dont have it in front of me right now...baby is 7.5 months old). waht do you guys think? shoudl i abandon the longies idea and just stick to the soaker?

for those of you knit this pattern often, how many skeins do you purchase before doing this pattern???

tia,
rach

 

[frogger]

nak

how many yards in a skein?

most of my longies has been from frogged sweaters, so I'm unsure on the yardage that I have used.

I would think that 3 sk of 220yds would be plenty!

 

[jodi5]

Wow, I haven't used that pattern but when I did picky pants for my 9 month old son that is 20lbs, I used one skein for shorts with an inseam of 2.5" They fit him more like capris.

 

[aisraeltax]

these skeins are about 65 yards each i think.

 

[Glittergal]

hmm, you might be getting close. I've made m picky pants and wonderpants with 1 skein that was maybe 220, when I used a different yarn for the ribbing waist and cuffs. but i had a terrible time with the f & f pattern - my pieces turned out HUGE, so i'm not much help with that pattern.

 

[cinnamonamon]

Was it the moda-dea (sp?) "cartwheels" stuff from jo-anns? If so, it took me 4 skeins (with a bit left over) to make a pair of longies (although with a different pattern and in a medium/large size). Goodluck!

 

[jodi5]

Okay, if they are 65 yards, it could be tight. Mine 1 skein was 230 yards.

 

[aisraeltax]

i ordered this yarn. it is to be exact:

Korall Fancy (Laines Du Nord) made in italy 100% new merino wool fine shrink resistant. 1.76 ox +/- 64 yards.

what would everyone recommend? teh instructions call for me to do 5 inches of leg and then an inch of ribbing. if i were to do these as long shorts, how many inches would i do? i really dont think i can get more of this yarn. i ordered it from PatternWorks and the ONE time i ordered more yarn from them when i ran out it was an entirely different consistency. so this is all i have. should i just do 4 inches and 1/2 inch ribbing? anyone have any suggestions?

thanks guys (gals),
rach

 

[cinnamonamon]

Uuuhh... doesn't shrink resistant mean that it's superwash? Superwash usually doesn't work well for diaper covers...

 

[aisraeltax]

what does superwash mean? ive used this yarn before for soakers (not this pattern yet) and found it was great..its much thicker than the other wool yarns i have.

like ive said in another thread, im just now learnign what yarns to use for which projects. but i thought if it was 100% wool it was good for a soaker. there are so many intricacies to knitting!

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[mehndi mama]

Shrink resistant merino wouldn't necessarily be superwash - I've been told by some people that it's fairly difficult to shrink merino. That could be what it means.

When I made Davey's pants, I'd say they took 6-7 oz of worsted weight yarn. I'm not sure what that equates in yards, but if your total weight isn't quite there, you probably need more.

 

[cinnamonamon]

I'm so glad I'm wrong! I,obviously, am not up on my yarn types either! Superwash wool is often used for socks (and other things, I'm sure). Anywho -- happy clicking!

 

[jodi5]

When I did picky pants for my 9 month old, I did 2.5" for the legs and they are basically capris or long shorts so you could easily do less for shorts.

 

[aisraeltax]

i had to pull it all out. i measured and everything, but it was so much larger than it needed to be. im just so confused now!!

 

[mehndi mama]

How was it too big? Too big around, too long in the rise, or both?
My pattern is written to make a "tall" soaker and highish-rise pants, so if you need them to be shorter in the rise, just make those measurements smaller. I like my wool to be tall, because my boys use BIG diapers, and I wanted to allow for ample coverage with no peekage at all

But I realize that not everybody likes or needs so much waist coverage. Luckily, that's easily remedied by changing the rise measurement to suit.