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halokiwi
halokiwi
1 year ago by halokiwi
@LunaBerry

The base strings need to be the length of the beaverbrook plus some extra for ties etc. The length can be calculated based on the amount of rows.

The leading strings can't really be calculated. It's best to just use the whole skein and cut it in the end.
LunaBerry
LunaBerry
1 year ago by LunaBerry
@halokiwi Is there a way to calculate string length for alpha patterns?
halokiwi
halokiwi
1 year, 1 month ago by halokiwi
@issayuh if a string has 50 percent and your bracelet is supposed to be 15 cm long, you'd calculate: 50 x 15/14
issayuh
issayuh
1 year, 1 month ago by issayuh
Hey um sorry but could you elaborate more on the last part? Where you said "For any other length the exact percentage would not have worked out. To still be able to work with the percentage, you just have to multiply it by the bracelet length you want divided by 14."

???
halokiwi
halokiwi
1 year, 1 month ago by halokiwi
@WhyKn07 the square root of 2 times the length of the bracelet squared plus what you need to the ties and 5cm for added security
WhyKn07
WhyKn07
1 year, 1 month ago by WhyKn07
I still don’t understand where the initial 45 cm comes from for a 14 cm bracelet…that makes it hard to adapt to bracelets of different sizes, since you use that base number for the rest of the calculations.
halokiwi
halokiwi
1 year, 2 months ago by halokiwi
I discovered one mistake

The correct formula for percentage of knots should be

percentage of knots made = number of knots : number of rows x 100

In the tutorial I incorrectly placed a bracket where it doesn't belong which made the formula incorrect.
Hinamichan
Hinamichan
1 year, 3 months ago by Hinamichan
@halokiwi Thank you so much I really suck at math lol I think I've been plugging the formula in wrong this entire time lol
halokiwi
halokiwi
1 year, 3 months ago by halokiwi
@Hinamichan the second string loops to become the second to last string.

These two strings make 24 knots in 40 rows, wich is 0,6 which is 60%. I think you just interpreted the results wrong somehow.
Hinamichan
Hinamichan
1 year, 3 months ago by Hinamichan
Okay last question I have this pattern #115934 could you calculate string number 2 for me? I am a little confused on how I would calculate it. I tried to calculate it the same way you did with string 8 and 10 by doing string 2 with string 17 but it came out to 0.06% which there is no way that is correct
halokiwi
halokiwi
1 year, 3 months ago by halokiwi
@Hinamichan check out the part on how to adapt the formula to different bracelet and tie length
Hinamichan
Hinamichan
1 year, 3 months ago by Hinamichan
I am a little confused about what I would do if I want a bracelet to be longer than 14 centimeters...
halokiwi
halokiwi
1 year, 3 months ago by halokiwi
@whoistaji the amount of strings shouldn't really affect how long the strings need to be
whoistaji
whoistaji
1 year, 3 months ago by whoistaji
ive tried this with bracelets with 8 strings and it worked amazingly. I'm doing calculations for a normal pattern that has a lot of strings, the numbers seem a little low but it should still work, right? (mb if the question a lil dumb....) I put 15 cm as the length I want for the pattern: #32405
halokiwi
halokiwi
1 year, 3 months ago by halokiwi
@panda4eva2 the formula for a 5,5 inches long bracelet (14cm) in inches would be:
17,7 inches + percentage of knots made divided by 2,647

But tbh, I would just calculate with cm and then transform your final result to inches. This way it is more straight forward.
halokiwi
halokiwi
1 year, 3 months ago by halokiwi
@panda4eva2 6 inches are 15 centimeters. I'm sure the formula is usable with inches too, but then you need to replace every number that is in centimeters with a number in inches.
panda4eva2
panda4eva2
1 year, 3 months ago by panda4eva2
@halokiwi the length of the pattern is 20 rows
In "length of braclet" I put 6 inches because I want it to be 6 inches.
When I put it into the calculator, it came out with 18.65 or something inches. That was exactly enough for one repetition plus ties.
Thank you for your patience ❤️
halokiwi
halokiwi
1 year, 3 months ago by halokiwi
@panda4eva2 length of bracelet is the length of the knotted part of the bracelet without the ties. For me that length is 14cm. It depends on how many rows the pattern has how many repeats of the pattern fit into these 14cm.

Which pattern did you do? How many rows does that pattern have? Most normal patterns won't be long enough, if you do only one repetition.

I needed to repeat pattern #148888 14 times to get to 14cm. That's 14x8=112 rows. So yeah, only a very long pattern only needs one repeat.
panda4eva2
panda4eva2
1 year, 3 months ago by panda4eva2
@halokiwi is "length of braclet" for the final length of the bracelet or the length of one repetition of a patter.? I did length of bracelet and it was WAY to short and was exactly one repetition plus ties.
twinpeaks
twinpeaks
1 year, 3 months ago by twinpeaks
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