I am having trouble understanding how to gage, does someone have a simple way of doing this, we are going to do a sweater and how do you know what size to knit it? thank you suzi55
If you are following a pattern, the pattern will tell you the gauge and how many stitches you should get per inch using a certain needle size. You grab those needles and the recommended yarn (or one the same ply etc) and knit a few rows and see how many stitches you are getting per inch. If you get the same as the pattern asks for then you have the right needles. If you are getting too many you go up a size a
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I am having trouble understanding how to gage, does someone have a simple way of doing this, we are going to do a sweater and how do you know what size to knit it? thank you suzi55
