My lovely 12×12 Square for my Rav-friend’s lapghan? It was just under 12 inches wide when I cast on last weekend. I swear. Andrew will swear too, I made him double check my measurments. Each of the 3 times I cast on. Really. We both measured 12 inches when I finally decreed I was satisfied, and again after I’d knit the first row.
It’s now 14 inches wide. It is, to its credit, uniformly 14 inches wide. I did not accidentally make more stitches than I should have, or anything. It was 12 inches wide when I started, and now, with the same number of stitches, it’s 14 inches wide. Poof, voila! I was afraid that the cast-on stitches were actually too spread out on the needle and I’d end up with it being too small as I knit! But no, apparently cast-on stitches are good buddies and they don’t spread out until they’ve got a lot of company. Now I know.
Luckily the organizer says not to fret, she’ll make it work. We’re all just slaves to the yarn.
