Changelog archive, versions 0.1 to 1.12
Standing note. I have no shell and no browser here, so this page has never been run in a browser by me; the figures in these entries were worked out by hand. The text below is copied across from the changelog page as it stood, each entry's later corrections included. Every version from 1.13 up is on the changelog.
Version 1.12 — a worked example for section 4
The examples under the title covered the cast-on, the repeats and the shaping steps, but section 4 had none, though its cross-check is the figure visitors most often ask about. A fourth line now sits under the title, and the same example is written into section 4's hint beside the box it describes: the 92 stitches the box arrives with become 101 for your gauge at the two default gauges, and knitting those 92 as written would measure 41.8 cm on your needles against the 46.0 cm the pattern expects. Worked out by hand from those defaults: 92 × 22 ÷ 20 = 101.2, rounded to 101; 92 ÷ 22 × 10 = 41.8 cm; 92 ÷ 20 × 10 = 46.0 cm. Wording and examples only: no box, figure or calculation differs from 1.11. The About paragraph that lists where the written examples live now names section 4 as well as section 5.
Version 1.11 — a worked example for the shaping steps
The worked examples under the title cover the cast-on, the row count and the repeats, but nothing showed what section 5 answers. There is now a third line there, and the same example is written into section 5's hint so it sits beside the boxes it describes: with those boxes as they arrive — 40 stitches becoming 60 over 44 cm, shaped at both ends, at 30 rows per 10 cm — the page says increase 1 stitch at each end every 13 rows, 10 times, then work the last 2 rows even. Worked out by hand from those defaults: 44 cm × 3 rows per cm = 132 rows; 20 extra stitches at 2 per shaping row = 10 shaping rows; 132 ÷ 10 = 13 with 2 rows left over, and 10 × 13 = 130 rows used of the 132. Wording and examples only: no box, figure or calculation differs from 1.10.
Version 1.10 — the same rounding rules in section 7
Section 7 borrows the width, the length and both repeats from sections 2 and 3, so its two cast-ons and two row counts are subject to the same rounding rules — but its hint only said the repeats were applied. It now says plainly that each cast-on is brought to the nearest repeat-plus-offset count, the way section 2's is, and each row count is rounded down to a whole repeat, the way section 3's is. Wording only: no box, figure or calculation differs from 1.9.
Version 1.9 — where the rounding is said out loud
The rule that a stitch count rounds to the nearest repeat-plus-offset while a row count rounds down was only written in the About section, so a visitor reading the hints could not tell why a cast-on sometimes comes out above their exact figure and a row count never does. Section 2's hint now says the cast-on is brought to the nearest count of that form — above or below, never more than half a repeat away — and points out that section 3 works the other way; section 3's hint says it rounds down, never up, so the last repeat finishes and you finish a few rows short rather than overshoot. Section 4's hint also now says the resized count rounds to the nearest such number. Wording only: no box, no figure and no calculation differs from 1.8.
One more sentence went into section 5's hint, because the exact-figures box in section 1 is easy to carry further than it goes: it says the shaping steps are always whole stitches and whole rows, so that box does not change them. The About section already said this; the hint now does too.
Version 1.8 — a worked example with repeats
The worked example under the title only showed a plain piece, so a visitor with a repeat could not see what a repeat does before typing. There is now a second example line beside it: on the same default boxes (52 × 56 cm, yours 22 stitches and 30 rows per 10 cm) a stitch repeat of “12 + 3” gives a cast-on of 111 stitches instead of 114 (120 with no offset), and whole 8-row repeats plus 2 extra rows give 162 rows instead of 168. Both figures were worked out by hand from those defaults.
Two hints were also tightened. Section 4 now says the repeat changes the resized count but not the two widths, which come from the counts as written — the About section already said the widths come from stitch counts alone. The rounding rule in the About section said a stitch offset was “added after” the rounding, which read as if the count were rounded first and the offset added on top; it now says the offset is taken off before rounding and added back after, which is what the page actually does.
Version 1.7 — the yarn figures are for plain fabric
Both yarn figures in section 6 describe a plain rectangle of knitting, and nothing said so: a selvedge, a seam allowance, section 2's edge stitches, a ribbed band or any edging all take yarn of their own on top. The hint under section 6 and the About section now say so and tell you to add a margin before you buy. Wording only — no box, figure or calculation differs from 1.6.
Version 1.6 — what the shaping steps do not cover
Section 5 works out one straight line of increases or decreases, which a neckline, shoulder or armhole is not: it steps in over a few rows and then stops. The hint under section 5 and the About section now say to use the pattern's own shaping rows there and this section for the straight run beside it. Wording only — no figure differs from 1.5.
Version 1.5 — what the page does, before you type anything
A worked example sits under the title: with the boxes as they arrive, 114 stitches, 168 rows and about 484 m of yarn. It is fixed text written to match the default boxes, not a live result, and the About section says so plainly. The section 6 hint also now says yarn lengths are metres or yards from the pattern and that section 2's unit does not change them.
Version 1.4 — the “+ N” in a row repeat too
Section 3 has an optional row-repeat offset beside the row repeat, for a pattern written “rows repeat 8 + 2”, whose whole row counts are 2, 10, 18 … Row counts still round down, so the largest repeat plus its extra rows that fits inside the length is used, and both that figure and the plain one are given. With the default boxes a repeat of 8 gives 168 rows and the same repeat with an offset of 2 gives 162. The offset applies to section 3's row count, the rows available for shaping and the cap schedule in section 5, and both row counts in section 7.
Known limits: the box takes a whole number from 0 up to one less than the repeat; anything else is flagged and treated as 0, and an offset with the repeat left at 1 is refused because on its own it means nothing. Leave it empty and every figure is exactly 1.3's.
Version 1.3 — exact figures, when you want them
New checkbox in section 1: “Show exact figures (up to 2 decimal places)”. Ticked, the cast-on, the resized count, the row figure, both yarn estimates and the width and total figures in section 7 print unrounded to at most two decimals (114.4 rather than 114), with a closing sentence saying those numbers can be a fraction of a stitch. It deliberately does not touch the shaping steps, the cap schedule or section 3's row count, which stay whole because you cannot work part of a row.
Version 1.2 — the “+ N” in a repeat
Section 2 has an optional stitch-repeat offset, the “+ 3” in “multiple of 12 + 3”, so a cast-on can land on 15, 27, 39 … instead of only on whole repeats: with the default boxes a repeat of 12 gives 120 stitches and the same repeat with an offset of 3 gives 111. It applies to the cast-on, the resized count in section 4 and both cast-ons in section 7. Known limit: the box takes a whole number from 0 up to one less than the repeat, anything else is flagged and treated as 0, and an offset with no repeat given is refused.
Version 1.1 — a printable page
A print stylesheet: Ctrl+P (Cmd+P) puts the answers on a clean sheet, black on white, with the input boxes, drop-downs, buttons and footer left off. Press “Gather the results” first and the sheet carries the summary block with the four gauges; without it you get the results but not the gauges you typed. Known limit: the printed sheet does not show what you typed into the boxes. (This entry listed the alert line among the things left off the sheet until 1.18, when that changed: a refusal message now prints, so a sheet cannot look clean when a box was turned down.)
Version 1.0 — take the results away with you
New section 8: a button gathers every result currently on the page into one plain-text block in a box, with the boxes you left empty left out, so an answer can be kept without retyping it — nothing on the page is saved and there are no accounts. The text is selected when it appears; the page cannot reach your clipboard itself, so you press Ctrl+C yourself. It is a copy of the sentences on the page, not a second calculation, and it goes stale if you change a box until you press the button again.
Version 0.9 — edge stitches in the cast-on
Section 2 has an optional edge-stitches box: selvedges, seam allowances and slipped edges are cast on top of the width, so with the default boxes 2 edge stitches at each side turn 114 into 118, and the page says what they add to the finished size and to count them off before working out shaping. Whole stitches per side only, added after the repeat rounding; sections 4 to 7 work from the plain counts. A small code cleanup (an unused argument) is in this version too and changed no figure.
Version 0.8 — a step-by-step sleeve cap
An optional cap schedule in section 5: give the cap length and the page fills in the underarm bind-off, how often to decrease 1 stitch at each end, and the rows to work even. In those boxes “Stitches you have now” is the count at the start of the cap and “Stitches you want” the count left at the top. Known limits, also on the page: a flat-knitted cap, bind-offs and decreases at both ends of right-side rows, whole stitches and rows, the cap length rounded to your row repeat, and no account of the shape of the armhole it sets into. It says which part is wrong rather than inventing a schedule.
Version 0.7 — two gauges side by side
New section 7 for choosing between two yarns or needle sizes: enter gauge A and gauge B and the page compares them over 10 cm (at 24/32 against 20/28, B has 17% fewer stitches and 13% fewer rows), then works out the piece from sections 2 and 3 at each gauge — 125 stitches and about 179 rows for A against 104 and about 157 for B, about 27% less knitting — with the repeats from those sections applied to both. Known limit: it does not compare yarn length, and its totals describe a plain rectangle.
Version 0.6 — yarn from a swatch you actually measured
A second yarn method in section 6: give a swatch's width, height and the yarn it used and the page works out the yarn per 100 cm² (15 × 12 cm using 20 m comes to about 11.1 m per 100 cm²) and multiplies it by the piece built from section 2's width and section 3's length — about 324 m for 52 × 56 cm — showing the scaled pattern figure beside it. Known limits: the swatch must be the same yarn and stitch pattern as the piece and the piece plain fabric; edges, borders and seams add yarn; the rate is worked out in centimetres. (This entry said 323 m until 1.13, when the figure was worked out again: the page rounds 323.6 to 324.)
Version 0.5 — row repeat rounding
Section 3 has an optional row-repeat multiple: with one given, the row count is rounded down to a whole repeat so the last repeat finishes, and the page states both that figure and the plain one (if the length holds less than a repeat, the plain rounded figure is used). Section 5 uses the same repeat for the rows available to shape over and reminds you to keep the shaping on the same row of each repeat. Known limit: rounding down can shorten the length by almost one repeat, so both figures are always shown.
Version 0.4 — see what the pattern’s count measures
Section 4 gained a cross-check: the pattern's 92 stitches measure 41.8 cm at your gauge against 46.0 cm at the pattern's — 4.2 cm (9%) narrower — and it says which way the piece would go if knitted as written and which count to use instead. When the gauges are near enough the same it says to knit it as written. Known limit: the widths come from stitch counts alone, so they ignore the repeat, selvedges, seams and edge treatments.
Version 0.3 — yarn-weight presets
A yarn-weight list in section 1 (lace through super bulky) fills the two “Yours” boxes with typical stitches and rows per 10 cm and updates the page. Known limit, stated on the page: a weight does not fix a gauge — needle, fibre and tension move it by several stitches per 10 cm — so the presets are a starting point to be corrected after swatching.
Version 0.2 — sleeve and shaping steps
New section 5: give the count you have, the count you want and the length to shape over and the page says how often to increase or decrease, for example “increase 1 stitch at each end every 13 rows, 10 times”, at both ends of the row or one end only. It says so rather than inventing a number when the length cannot hold the shaping. Known limit: whole rows inside the length, so it can fall a few rows short and says how many to work even.
Version 0.1 — first version
Enter the pattern's gauge and yours and the page works out the cast-on count for a width, the rows for a length, what any pattern stitch count becomes on your needles, and a yarn estimate, with an optional stitch repeat so counts land on the pattern's repeat. Everything runs on the page: no account, nothing saved. Known limits: rounded counts are a starting point, not a replacement for your own swatch, and the yarn estimate assumes the same yarn at a different gauge rather than a substituted yarn.