stockinette stitch

Exploring gauge with thick and thin yarn

Basically you can knit with thick and thin yarn at any gauge, but you’ll need to experiment a little to see how the yarn behaves for you on different needle sizes and on the tension you usually apply to yarn. Each knitter’s feeding tension (how much yarn is fed to…

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Knitting your Uptown Worsted cushion cover

If you’ve been reading along with us this week on KNITmuch, you’ll know we’ve been starting on a cushion cover project for the home, using Universal Yarn Uptown Worsted yarn in Sapphire colorway. In December we introduced some project options for the Uptown Worsted yarn, which is a versatile 100%…

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Neaten up your edges with some knitting basics

Happy Monday, knitting readers! This week on the KNITmuch blog, we’re going to take you on a tour of different stitch patterns and the kinds of ways they can come in handy especially how neaten up your edges with some knitting basics. In today’s post, we’re looking at knitted stitches…

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