Guide to Creating Tension and Gauge Swatches

Tension and Gauge swatches serve multiple purposes in machine knitting. Swatching is essential to getting good fit and knitting lasting garments! Swatching also helps avoid the pitfalls that far too many knitters encounter.

In this guide, we discuss:

1. What the purpose is for each type of swatch
2. How to make and evaluate the tension swatch
3. How to make and evaluate the guage swatch
4. How to find the perfect tension for the yarn, stitch and machine

This is the companion guide for the video How to Machine Knit Tension and Gauge Swatches.

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