Sweater fit, gauge and made-to-measure knitting, explained.
Sixty years of textile research explain why your swatch changes after washing, why rows and stitches never come out 'square', what take-down weights really do on a knitting machine, and how to estimate yarn from loop length. Munden, Knapton, Dalidovich, and what to actually do with them.
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Read →Your swatch says 22 stitches, the pattern says 20. Here's the decision tree: when to change needles, when to change yarn, when to recalculate the pattern — and why row gauge matters more than anyone admits.
Read →Standard sweater patterns are sized by bust circumference alone. Real bodies vary in shoulders, torso, arms and bust shape. Here's why that breaks fit, and the five measurements that actually determine whether a sweater sits well.
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