Using a larger needle will naturally create larger stitches and looser fabric. Just remember to knit a gauge swatch to ensure ...

Swatch First: Always knit a swatch before starting to ensure ... add the fifth stitch by pushing your needle through the fabric and picking up a stitch in the same place you did in step 1.

the researchers stretched a square of knit fabric, created with a basic stitch known as stockinette, on a rectangular frame. Then they released the force and measured the ratio of the swatch’s ...

The swatch was for a talk she would deliver ... Matsumoto’s presentation opened a three-hour session entitled “Fabrics, Knits and Knots” — the first time that the subject had been ...