Gauge Swatch – Yarn and Chocolate

Measuring your Swatch and Calculating Your Gauge

Hi Friends! Once you have knit your swatch and it is blocked and dry, you can measure it to calculate your gauge. First, let’s look at the anatomy of a knit stitch to make sure we know what to look for on the stockinette stitch swatch. In the cartoon figure below, there are three stitches …

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Embracing The Gauge Swatch

I wasn’t always a fan of the gauge swatch, but by necessity, when I began designing stuff, I had to swatch. At first I used my swatches for the obvious reasons (determining how many stitches to cast on, increase, decrease, etc.), but after a few designs, I realized the additional value of my swatches. Not …

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