Good yarn shops display to their customers samples of their goods : little square swatches (often 10 X10 cm) of the yarn they are selling, usually in stockinette, often fully enclosed by a garter stitch border. This is lovely ro see and touch, the start of many woolly love affairs, but I disgress. The key … Continue reading Knitting advice No. 26 : Don’t knit your swatch as if you were a shop owner (you need some level of accuracy to measure gauge)