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Let’s say you just saw a cowl pattern that you absolutely love, but just wish it used a different yarn weight. For example, let’s say the pattern calls for DK-weight but you…
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I recently did a whole tutorial about swatching as part of my Audrey’s Cardigan KAL. And it made me realize that although I talk a lot about swatching in general, I haven’t…
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My latest design, 1979, calls for heavy DK or light-worsted weight yarn. But what exactly does that mean? Well, yarn is classified into different weights (fingering, sport, dk, worsted, etc) depending on…
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One question that I’m often asked (as someone who does a lot of seamless knitting), is how to do a gauge swatch for knitting in the round. I’ll admit, many times in…