Row/stitchnumbers not centimeters.
I was listening to a knitting video-podcast, maybe even it was a knitting "hot takes" type, when I stopped for a moment, and my eyebrows shot up to my hairline.
The youtuber stated, that whenever she needs to knit something in pairs she never counts rows, only measure the thing in cm-s (or inches, whatever, you understand I hope).
I don't know, why this hit me, but I was like NO way. I would ALWAYS count stitches and rows and not measure.
Partly, I think, that, by now, I have knitted so much, that my gauge is pretty consistent, I do not knit thighter or looser when I am angry, stressed, or sad.
Partly... I don't even know, I just feel better, to go by rownumbers.
Of course, I do measure things like the length of a sweater or a sleeves, but once I knitted one sock (or sleeve, or a mitten, etc), I knit the second one with the same row/stitchnumber, not to the same measurements.
The same way, when I increase/decrease at a side of a sweater, or under a sleeve, I always do it at XX rows, and not YY centimeters.
How do you work? by row/stitchnumbers or centimeters... and why?
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