Tuesday Tip – Gauge Swatch Cast On

Tuesday Tip – Gauge Swatch Cast On

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If you’ve watched my DVD Patty’s Knitting Bag of Tricks, you know all about the sad frown cast on and how we can avoid it.

A too tight cast on can really create a gauge swatch that can lie to you. In this Tuesday Tip I wanted to share one of my favorite gauge tricks –

Gauge Swatch Cast On!

When we do a gauge swatch we want the fabric of our swatch to behave like the fabric of our project. That means not having it constrained by a cast on or bind off edge.

For more tips LIVE, join me in one of my live classes.  Keep watching the Upcoming Classes page.  I update it frequently.

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To REALLY explore gauge, enjoy my video class MAKE YOUR GAUGE WORK. Click on the picture below

 

Make Your Gauge Work

 

To read past Tuesday tips, just click on the Tutorial category of the blog (or here I did it for you!).

If you have a “is there a better way to do that”, or “how do you do that” question, leave me a comment, and I’ll add it to the Tuesday Tip list!

 

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