Patternwork

If you can be disciplined enough to do your swatch, then you can measure it, and then you can create a graph that is customized to the swatch and then the pattern ou draw on to it will fit the yarn quite nicely.The last pattern I did I used "knitting graph paper" but then I knitted various gauge swatches to see what looked the best. Backwards, but fun! Here's the on line graph by gauge I stumbled on Sweaterscapes Knitting Graphs