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How to Swatch: A Sneak Peek of Kate Atherley’s Next Book

20 November 2024
By Kate Atherley
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Editor’s note: This article previews a work-in-progress section from Kate Atherley’s new book on math for knitters, coming in mid-2025 from Nine Ten Publications. Sign up for the Nine Ten Publications newsletter to get all the latest updates about this exciting new release delivered right to your inbox!

You’ve heard it all before. Every designer and pattern instruction talks about gauge, and how important it is to swatch, but what’s often missing from the instructions is clear and sensible advice about how to swatch.

Here’s my guide to making a useful gauge swatch, incorporating a few pragmatic shortcuts.

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What to Swatch (Plain or Pattern)

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About Kate Atherley

Kate Atherley (she/her) is a co-founder, editor and publisher at Digits & Threads and Nine Ten Publications. She has worked in the crafts industry in one way or another since 2002 as a designer, editor, writer, and instructor. She's authored eight books about knitting, from a next-steps guide for newbie knitters to the industry's only guide to professional knitting pattern writing. Kate lives in Toronto, Ontario, with her husband and their rescue dog Winnie.

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