Gauge Round Up

I have written about gauge many times. I think about gauge, I teach gauge, I believe in gauge.

Right now nearly 900 knitters are knitting up the Labadee Cowl and have found out how a tiny difference in a gauge swatch can domino into a cowl that’s way too big. Good news is I updated the pattern for THREE different gauges so if you don’t match the pattern gauge you can cast on few stitches and even eliminate a repeat here and there and get your dream cowl!

Next week hundreds of knitters will start swatching for the Roselle Tee Video KAL, so I thought this was a great time for a round up of . . .

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Gauge But Were Afraid to Ask!

Since I’ve written on my blog, on Twist Collective and on Mason Dixon Knitting, I thought I’d put them all in one place, so here ya go!

BLOG:

• Swatching in the Round
• Big Box of Knitting Fails: Giant Sweater
• Five Things in a Good Sweater Pattern
• Big Box of Knitting Fails: It’s a GROWER
• Why We Swatch
• How to Measure Your Knitting
• Big Box of Knitting Fails Puffy Sleeve (bad row gauge)
• 5 Steps to a Perfect Sweater
• How to Block a Gauge Swatch
• Measuring Gauge
• Gauge Swatch Cast On
• 5 Secrets of Row Gauge
• 5 Secrets of Stitch Gauge
• Gauge Math = Cookie Math

Modern Daily Knitting

• We Need to Talk About Gauge

Twist Collective

• Yarn Density
• How our Swatch Can LIE
• Biasing Yarn
• WPI in yarn

In addition to all that info, if you are in my Ravelry group, you’ll find lots of other tips on gauge in my KAL FAQ page.

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