This is why I love being a math teacher:
When I want to knit "Matrix" but my already-purchased and husband-approved yarn is giving me a gauge of 6 stitches per inch (and it look really good like that so I don't want to try bigger needles), instead of the recommended 5 stitches per inch, I know how to fix it! Since the palm pattern is a repeat of 2, and the back pattern is a repeat of 4, if I go up 8 stitches from the largest size, then take those 56 stitches and divide by 6 = yup, a circumference of just over 9 inches.
The fact that I cannot spell "gauge" correctly to save my life is probably part of why I'm not an English teacher.
Gauge is slapping me up the side of the head right now. I can control the craziness, though: change the needles, the stitches, the wool, or, now, the pattern.
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