Those nubby tie fighters don ' t get none of them shields . <| sep |> I don ' t think fairness really comes into it . Each party would negotiate what it thought it could get away with . <| sep |> Honestly it doesn ' t bother me too much , but I ' ve been knitting for years and have most size needles and can adjust them when I need to , when I first started it bothered me a lot more , but it would be really hard to get a accurate one s size fits all on that . I look at it like I do recipes , the patternrecipe is a suggestion . What worked for the author may not work for me . In knitting groups where we did the same pattern with the same yarn , there are always at least three different needle sizes amongst us to make the gauge swatch . I almost consistently need to go down a needle size for a pattern and I have friends who have to go up . When you have different variables like tension , you ' re not going to have a standard that fits everybody . So just like I have to modify half the recipes in my mom ' s cookbook to work in a different altitude and humidity , sometimes I have to modify patterns if I want them to work .