Gaugeswatch Cards
Description: A gauge swatch drawn like an engineer's part: thirty-four stitches by forty-eight rows of stockinette, a garter border four stitches wide, and a measuring window - twenty by twenty-eight stitches, four inches square, close enough to count. The notes carry what everyone skips: wash and block before measuring, count the middle, not the border, needle size is a suggestion but gauge is the requirement. Off half a stitch per inch over two hundred stitches, and the sweater runs four inches wider than planned. Plate 10 in a series of technical drawings of craft things. This one prints in the color for dark garments. The version for light garments is here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/99242132-anatomy-of-a-gauge-swatch-light-shirts
Description: A gauge swatch drawn like an engineer's part: thirty-four stitches by forty-eight rows of stockinette, a garter border four stitches wide, and a measuring window - twenty by twenty-eight stitches, four inches square, close enough to count. The notes carry what everyone skips: wash and block before measuring, count the middle, not the border, needle size is a suggestion but gauge is the requirement. Off half a stitch per inch over two hundred stitches, and the sweater runs four inches wider than planned. Plate 10 in a series of technical drawings of craft things. This one prints in the color for light garments. The version for dark garments is here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/99017808-anatomy-of-a-gauge-swatch
