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Filter By Categories: top tips & Tutorials / creativity & wellbeing /STUDIO INSIDER or browse all posts belowChoosing the best yarn for the job: Cables and fancy stitchwork
How do you go about choosing the yarn that's going to work best for your project?
Knitting Tension (Gauge) for the Terrified: Part 1
Many knitters skip the vital stage of swatching their tension (guage) - here are the why’s and how’s of measuring tension