We all know how important it is to measure the gauge before we start knitting a project (if you have any doubts, take a look at this tutorial). Even though making a swatch and counting the number of stitches and rows in 10 cm / 4″ square takes an extra hour of our time, usually …
Imagine that you want to knit a project in several colours so that the colours gradually flow one into another. The first solution that comes to mind – get variegated or space-dyed yarn. Those yarns are perfect for creating random colour work, but they have one big flaw – you can’t control which colour changes …
For this article I picked a topic that is not considered to be particularly interesting, more like a pain in the back. But I decided to tackle it anyway to hopefully find ways to minimize the amount of frustration we all get when our working yarn occasionally turns into a tangled mess. It seems that …