This video knitting tutorial will help you learn how to knit measuring your gauge. This technique will show you how to check your gauge .
Materials Used in this Tutorial
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A Pair of Knitting Needles
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Pattern Instructions
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Skill: Easy
Cast On: Worked over 4 stitches
To measure gauge you are going to make a gauge swatch. You are going to want to block your swatch so it will lay flat. Take a t-pin and place it between one of the stockinette rows. Then take a flat ruler and put the end of your ruler next to the t-pin and place your other pin at the 4 inch mark. Then you are going to count the number of stitches between the t-pins. Divide number of stitches counted by number of inches measured. For vertical row gauge you are going to want to do the same thing. Mark a stitch with a t-pin somewhere in the middle of the bottom of the row. Then take a flat ruler and put the end of your ruler next to the t-pin and place your other pin at the 4 inch mark. Then you are going to count the number of stitches in the row between the t-pins. Divide number of stitches counted by number of inches measured.
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Great video. helps a lot. Thank you so much
Excellent explanation on measuring gauge! Well done!!!! (As are all of your videos!)
Can you explain adjusting needle size to get correct gauge? I know larger needle gives fewer stitches per inch, and smaller needle gives more stitches per inch, but using a larger needle would make garment bigger, yes? So which way do you go to adjust size of garment, to make it larger or smaller? This is all very confusing to me!
Sounds like you’ve already got a decent handle on it. A larger needle produces fewer stitches per inch; less stitches per inch means you knit fewer stitches to cover the same amount space. If you then knit the same number of stitches as your pattern suggests beforehand, you’ll have a bigger garment because those stitches are bigger.
The opposite is true for a smaller needle.
Does that help?
Thank you so much. Your videos and explanations are of great help.
I love your clarity and precision teaching. I don’t get how to count 1/4, 1/2 etc. portion of a stitch. Since there are only two parts to a V st how do you get 1/4 or 3/4??? Sorry, my misunderstanding even though I am an accomplished knitter I don’t often do gauges because it wasn’t that clear to me how to do so. Please help and thanx so much for your good work.
The 1/4 will be in the center of the first half of the V, the 1/2 will be in the center of the V, and the 3/4 will be in the center of the second half of the V.
Does that help?
Thanks for the great video, really appreciated
Thank you! Extremely well done video. Now I understand. I love how you slowly and carefully explain everything you do.
Very nice video and one worth watching!