Can I just say, a yarn scale is one of the best knitting tools you can have.
I just finished knitting In Threes, one of my favorite baby knits. I can knit the smallest size with one skein of Malabrigo Rios. I don’t remember the name of this colorway; it was in my stash. Lots of pinks and oranges.
As I was approaching the bottom garter stitch edge, I started weighing my yarn. It was taking 3 grams for every two rows, or 1.5 grams per row. I figured out how many rows I would need to finish following the instructions (6 rows garter plus 2 rows stockinette, plus bind off which I always equate to two rows, so 10 rows total). That meant that I would need 15 grams to finish, whenever I left off from the stockinette body. I could see that I’d have to short the body a little, knitting 2 rows fewer than what would get me to the preferred length, in order to have 15 grams left for the finishing. No big deal.
After binding off, this is all I had left. Not enough for 2 rows of stockinette (the ones I skipped), which would have used 3 grams. If I had knit 2 more rows of stockinette, I would have had to rip back. Nope. I WIN! (Also, this picture is more representative of the true color of the yarn.)
These are the sweet buttons I bought from Tracy at Hap Bee at Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival. I love how they’re just enough color to show up, but not take away from all the different colors in the Malabrigo yarn.
Now to get this off to the sweet recipient!
PDXKnitterati 
HA !!! – so you DO knit garments !!!!!!!! 😊
Very tiny ones!
Yeah yeah, I haven’t forgotten your reasoning. 🙂 And besides, your reluctance to do any bigger than ‘very tiny’ results in very beautful shawls and stuff.
Love the yarn and buttons for the baby sweater. Yep on scale. I just bought a really small one that I can literally keep in my sweater project bags for my striped Daft Day Cardigan where I’m using minis for the stripes. Determined how many rows I could knit per mini while needing to make sure I had enough for the sleeve stripes.
That’s winning! I have a smaller scale, too, but it’s not as photogenic as this one!
I have moulds to make resin buttons, I just rarely make anything that needs them! Seeing the ones you bought makes me want to make some just for the heck of it.
That sounds like fun! These are really sweet.
I absolutely rely on my scale when making knitting decisions because I absolutely hate to lose at yarn chicken!! I have also started finishing sweaters out of order because… yarn chicken… when I am worried. I have been known to put the body on a holder while I do the neck ribbing and the sleeves, and then the body is finished using the scale to help me make good decisions about how long it can be.
That is one of my favorites for new people, too. Flies off the needles!Glad you won at Yarn Chicken. The scale is a marvelous knitting device. I steal the one from our kitchen all the time.
Beautiful! That is for a lucky new little person!