Monthly Archives: August 2014

Future Past …

[Translate] We’ll get back to color work in a little bit, but today’s post is about knitting in film. Reel Knits is one of my favorite segments in the upcoming show I’m doing, even though most of what we watch on television and in the movies nowadays is actually shot digitally. In actuality, there would still be lots to write about even if it was limited to what was shot on actual film! There’s lots to write about here and there will be lots covered in the show, but I’m going to start this off with a new show […]

Measuring gauge …

[Translate] Ok, so hopefully now you fully understand the difference between tension and gauge. If you’re knitting from a pattern, it’s important that you make sure you have the right gauge so the particular pattern that you’re making will come out the size you want. Let’s look at exactly how we go about measuring our gauge. Most patterns will give you a gauge swatch over 4″ or 10 cm. Here’s the first little trick … 4″ = 10.16 cm. Now that might not seem like much, but you have to remember that as the size of the project grows, […]

Tension vs Gauge

[Translate] I think two of the most misused terms in knitting are tension and gauge. I’ll try and explain the difference. Tension is defined as the state of being stretched, or mental or emotional strain. Basically, the amount of force being applied to a thing. Gauge is defined as the thickness, size, or capacity of something, especially as a standard measure, in particular, or an object used to measure this quantity. As a verb, it is the act of measuring the previous. Now these things are completely different, yet knitters seem to interchange them as if they were the […]

Thank you!

[Translate] I recently put out a post in the Ravelry Group and echoed it on Facebook asking for knitters for the 2015 scarf calendar. The theme of the calendar is cables, as hinted in the previous post. Needless to say, the response has been overwhelming. Thank you everyone for your support. I will be sorting the responses and responding to them in the next day or two. Please be patient if you haven’t heard back yet. Unfortunately, I only have so much yarn and so many scarves to knit, so I couldn’t choose everyone. For the most part, the […]

Inspiration …

[Translate] A friend of mine, Lee Ann Dalton, shared a message on Facebook yesterday that has inspired me. You’ll see the irony in it once you read it … “The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the […]