I'm tempted to splurge on knitting software, so I can avoid all the math needed for fitting things. Right now? I just go by chest measurement, and eyeball the length. Eventually I'll be a good girl and use the instructions for proper fitting that's posted over on knitty.
I hate the idea of wasting perfectly good yarn, so I don't bother cutting the yarn when I'm checking my guage. Yeeeeeah, it means I won't have a swatch for future reference, but it's really not that difficult to write down "Yarn XYZ, dk weight, 5.5 stitches on size 7 needle" in a notebook.
Incidentally, I really lucked out the last time I didn't bother checking guage. I was making Tempting a size bigger than I should have... but it turned out that I knit very, very tightly... so it ended up fitting perfect. Hee!
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I hate the idea of wasting perfectly good yarn, so I don't bother cutting the yarn when I'm checking my guage. Yeeeeeah, it means I won't have a swatch for future reference, but it's really not that difficult to write down "Yarn XYZ, dk weight, 5.5 stitches on size 7 needle" in a notebook.
Incidentally, I really lucked out the last time I didn't bother checking guage. I was making Tempting a size bigger than I should have... but it turned out that I knit very, very tightly... so it ended up fitting perfect. Hee!