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Tale of 3 Swatches - Replay Live Archive

Have you ever found a stitch pattern and thought "that would be perfect for that sweater I've been thinking of knitting!"?
Let's explore stitch patterns and how to incorporate them in garments.
  • Compare gauges
  • Yarn usage with different stitches
  • "Fabric" Considerations
  • Garment construction in pattern
Let's get creative with stitch patterns (no more plain 'ol stockinette) BUT be informed about incorporating stitch patterning in our knitting.
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Links mentioned in the Show

Block Blanket Knit-Along
Stitch Types and yarn Usage
Seaming Reverse Stockinette
Weekend Tee
Tension Setting Essentials
Gauge Conversion Tool
Paneled Women's Tee


o;?09:44:50 From Matt Friedman to All panelists : Works perfectly!
09:45:26 From Sue Jalowiec to All panelists : hi everybody!
09:45:27 From Cynthia Price to All panelists : hello from canada
09:45:38 From Lyn Reese to All panelists : Lyn here from Texas
09:46:16 From Cynthia Price to All panelists : no
09:46:31 From Cynthia Price to All panelists : i can hear you.
09:46:42 From Matt Friedman : Hi everyone
09:47:03 From Matt Friedman : to get your texts to be seen by everyone set your TO option to ALL PANELIST AND ATTENDEES
09:47:14 From Matt Friedman : then you will broadcast your text othe group
09:47:41 From Marelda : Hello from California!
09:47:57 From Lyn Reese : hi from texas
09:48:36 From Carolyn Johnson : hi from California
09:50:25 From Terry : Hi from the Netherlands
09:51:42 From MaryAnn to All panelists : Hi. Looks like a good change for us.
09:52:53 From MaryAnn to All panelists : Ibm listening. You look good too.
09:53:25 From Carolyn Johnson : yes
09:53:28 From Cynthia Price to All panelists : yes i can
09:53:31 From MaryAnn to All panelists : Yes.
09:56:53 From MaryAnn : Fuzzy, but I could make it out OK.
09:57:04 From Matt Friedman : Hey everyone - switch To: option in the chat so we can all talk together
09:57:25 From Sue Jalowiec : Hi everyone to get your texts to be seen by everyone set your TO option to ALL PANELIST AND ATTENDEES then you will broadcast your text othe group
09:57:31 From jodyanderson : Good morning from Alaska
09:57:39 From Lyn Reese : was also able to read the screen
09:57:44 From Matt Friedman to All panelists : you are real-time - no lag.
09:58:33 From nancy mangeri : Nancy Mangeri in Kansas here.
09:58:38 From Cindy M to All panelists : Glad to join you --Cindy M from FL
09:58:43 From Phyllis K. : Hi Sue, happy Tuesday! Looking good.
09:59:01 From erinh : no
09:59:05 From Cindy M to All panelists : No music
09:59:10 From Jenny : Hi Sue and everyone, from North Wales!
09:59:15 From Lyn Reese : No music
09:59:36 From darcy : did anyone else have to join zoom? also I am getting no sound
09:59:44 From junehess to All panelists : Hello from Washington state.
09:59:59 From Matt Friedman to All panelists : we are running this in zoom today - trying new technology to make it easier for us and everyone
10:00:04 From saintesprit Marie-Jo to All panelists : Hello, Sue, Marie-Jo here .... and France with me !!!
10:00:09 From MaryAnn : I had joined Zoom previously. Itbs a simple to use platform for participants.
10:00:30 From Cynthia Price : to Jenny is North Wales my hubby was from the Rhonda Valley south Wales
10:00:41 From DianeMcQueen to All panelists : Hi from Sycamore, IL.
10:00:41 From Alison Traynor : Yes I did MaryAnn and no sound here also
10:02:01 From Alison Traynor : Got sound now
10:02:03 From Matt Friedman to All panelists : It good
10:09:06 From CaraL : I usually make many swatches until I get what I want. Then use the "unused swatches unknit for the ribs
10:09:16 From Matt Friedman : All good here
10:09:20 From Alison Traynor : Have now
10:10:34 From nancy mangeri : it is taking me awhile to figure this out
10:10:35 From Lyn Reese : hit by mistake
10:11:01 From Mary Ann : I find Swatch yarn too wrinkly for stockinet after it has been washed & steamed. Probably will work OK for ribs though.
10:11:12 From Alison Traynor : I can hear Lyn
10:11:13 From JL Master to All panelists : whew! I was scared that it was just me ...
10:11:13 From erinh : i here lyn
10:11:16 From Mary Ann : I can hear lyn
10:11:16 From Carolyn Johnson : I heard Lyn
10:11:17 From Phyllis K. : I could hear her.
10:11:18 From CaraL : I can hear her
10:11:25 From Annie Lindsay : I can hear Lynn.
10:11:26 From Matt Friedman : We hare hearing her
10:11:32 From JL Master to All panelists : I hear Lyn
10:11:35 From Cynthia Price : I heard Lynn and her cough. Hi lynn
10:11:35 From darcy : Guess I'll watch the swatching as I do the counting also and it drives me nuts, always lose my count.
10:13:13 From Carolyn Johnson : seeing you
10:13:17 From Mary Ann : Seeing you.
10:13:17 From Cynthia Price : i can see you and the chat
10:13:19 From erinh : i see you
10:13:22 From Carolyn Johnson : big window
10:13:23 From Cynthia Price : big window
10:13:24 From Mary Ann : Big window.
10:13:25 From erinh : big
10:13:25 From Annie Lindsay : Big
10:13:27 From Lyn Reese : just seeing you in window
10:13:27 From darcy : you and your background big window
10:13:27 From Janine Kindle to All panelists : big
10:13:27 From Alison Traynor : half screen
10:13:35 From CaraL : I see you, a curtain and machine behind you.
10:13:35 From saintesprit Marie-Jo to All panelists : Yes, I see you in a big window !!
10:13:37 From Carolyn Johnson : seeing chat window too
10:13:42 From Terry : agree
10:14:30 From CaraL : (chat window can be un erged from video window)
10:14:31 From lesbale to All panelists : See you in big window and can hear lynn
10:14:42 From CaraL : unmergerd
10:15:29 From Dawn to All panelists : Can see video and
10:15:35 From Alison Traynor : You need to cut Lyn off
10:15:36 From Annie Lindsay : I still hear Lynn.
10:15:45 From Cynthia Price : Lynn's name keeps falshing up on the screen
10:16:17 From Dawn to All panelists : hear, but video is turned off if I go to the chat!
10:16:32 From Alison Traynor : Think she's off
10:18:10 From Cynthia Price : you have a pattern in the files with a lace pattern in the center
10:18:11 From saintesprit Marie-Jo to All panelists : I finished my sideway pullover last week, but the photo I took is not good enough to be sent !!!
10:18:36 From Alison Traynor : Your great..dont worry
10:18:43 From saintesprit Marie-Jo to All panelists : I will, sure, I will !!!
10:18:48 From Cynthia Price : i don't know if my photo was posted.
10:18:55 From Ken : Can you have people chat to all attendees? We can't see all of the chats.
10:19:28 From Cindy M to All panelists : Thinking of the sweater with tuck in a center panel, could you do some short rows of tuck to add length that way? Is it possible?
10:20:47 From Jenny : As a new subscriber I am too busy exploring all the KIN site to get any knitting done!
10:21:10 From Dawn : Need 7 sts by 11 rows, but have only been able to achieve 7 sts by 9 rows...
10:21:10 From Mary Ann : Then you need to knit a separate panel to add the patterned center.
10:21:28 From Cindy M to All panelists : So you are knitting the sections separately with different gauge for each accordingly.
10:21:35 From Carolyn Johnson : when doing the swatches, I assume I need to do a tuck swatch for each tuck pattern I want to use???
10:22:11 From CaraL : I was taught sts are the main tension, rows are the yarn mast, Dawn. Might that help?
10:22:26 From nancy mangeri : if you make the larger sized swatches you can use the swatches to make small cut and sew items.
10:22:45 From Dawn : yes
10:23:20 From CaraL : Nancy M, that's sometimes what I do, too.
10:23:34 From Dawn : thanks
10:23:51 From Cindy M to All panelists : Gotcha! thx
10:24:45 From Dawn : Carla, will try that on a additional swatch, thanks!
10:25:09 From Cynthia Price : i have found a pattern in your free patterns but i forget the name of it. it has the panel up the front that is in a different Pattern
10:25:20 From junehess : On a panel sweater, would sew as you go work or do I need to do a seam?
10:26:56 From CaraL : Yes, that's so true, a lot of playing. Also sometimes just how tightly the yarn is balled makes a difference. So re-balling might help. Sue is right.
10:26:58 From nancy mangeri : junehess, it has to be seamed because the row gauges are different.
10:28:35 From Cindy M to All panelists : Oh, I like the exposed seams!
10:28:39 From Annie Lindsay : The unblocked swatch you showed earlier, had some slight rowing out. What causes that?
10:30:28 From Annie Lindsay : Yes
10:30:46 From Ken : When you block a swatch, do you just steam it or do you pin it down first?
10:31:09 From nancy mangeri : we need to think of swatching as Research and Development.
10:31:17 From Cynthia Price : could we do a class on the T- sweaater we saw. i know i would enjoy it and hopefully others would as well. it would really be a learning experience
10:31:40 From CaraL : HaHa, that's really good Nancy. I like that.
10:31:51 From Annie Lindsay : Tension spring
10:31:54 From Carolyn Johnson : R&D it is@
10:32:04 From Terry : like that too
10:32:26 From Hanne : take up spring
10:32:31 From Terry to All panelists : I have 2 standard machines... Toyota and Silver Reed. Swatches are different using the same tension and guage..
10:32:34 From Annie Lindsay : yes
10:35:30 From nancy mangeri : I made the panel t and would enjoy a kal or class as I need to make a new one in another sizep
10:36:30 From Ken : Definetly interested in the DAK info.
10:36:38 From erinh : I would
10:36:48 From Mary Ann : DAK information YES
10:36:52 From junehess : Yes, definitely.
10:36:53 From Annie Lindsay : Yes. Ibm intimidated by my electronics.
10:37:03 From florence levy : Yes, I would love to see it. I have an 860 and a 560 with the link and DAK so I would love to see what youbre doing.
10:37:08 From Marilyn to All panelists : I use an SK 840 with Dak. Definitely interested I Dak "stuff"
10:37:10 From paires to All panelists : What yarn are you using on your SK860?
10:37:12 From Carolyn Johnson : Have 4 machines (Silver Reed) and all are electronic and DAK. Love to have classes on that.
10:37:26 From Alison Traynor : Your breaking up
10:37:34 From Marelda : I have that the 860, Silverlink 5 and DAK and would love learning more.
10:40:36 From Alison Traynor : Very interested in DAK
10:40:57 From CaraL : The new links are way faster than old serial port ones.
10:41:37 From Carolyn Johnson : Tamm Nordic is great for mid gauge
10:41:52 From Ken : Charlene from the Knit Knack shop has some great DAK training material. She is great with DAK.
10:42:44 From Carolyn Johnson : Think Christmas stockings with Tamm
10:43:40 From junehess : How drastic difference is there in stitch gauge with difference colors of the same yarn?
10:44:48 From nancy mangeri : it is a slight but can mess you up, white and black seem to be the most drastic
10:45:12 From CaraL : Great show, no worries with outline. Love Zoom. THANKS!!
10:45:19 From Cynthia Price : It was a great and educational program worts and all. thanks so much to you and Matt
10:45:20 From patricia to All panelists : Thank you Sue!
10:45:21 From Hope : Thanks Sue, I love knit club!
10:45:25 From laurie ball : Thank you. Enjoyed this.
10:45:28 From Alison Traynor : Thanks Sue!
10:45:32 From Phyllis K. : Looking forward to tomorrow's Knit Along. My LK-150 is almost ready to roll. About half-way through putting back the needles after replacing the sponge bar. Thanks for today!
10:45:37 From erinh : Thank you
10:46:03 From Cindy M to All panelists : Thank you, Sue!
10:46:10 From Dawn : Thanks Sue and all!
10:46:23 From saintesprit Marie-Jo : Hi sue !