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Knitting Tips - How To Care For Your
Knitting Yarn Follow our fabulous yarn tips for keeping your yarn in tip top condition, 1. Fluffy yarn has a habit of getting flattened during storage and can be a bit of a nightmare to work with because of they're tendency to shed. Try putting the yarn in plastic bag and then into the freezer for a few hours before working with it - it will help it to keep it fibres and stop them from getting up your nose!2. Always make sure you choose balls of yarn with the same dye lot or dye batch number when working on a garment. When yarn companies produce yarn they dye them in batches and there can be slight variations in color between batches. So if you don't want to end up with your sleeves a different shade to your body, make sure all of the batch numbers are the same. In fact, I always buy an extra ball than is recommended in the pattern just in case there's nothing worse than running out of yarn and finding that the yarn store has run out of your batch. 3. If you substitute a yarn from that which is recommended in the pattern (and I'd encourage you to be brave and have a go at doing it from time to time - it's a great way of unleashing your creative side!) make sure that the yarn you choose knits to the same tension as that mentioned in on the yarn band. It's always best to choose yarns from the same family - worsted, finger weight, chunky etc. Even so, you may still need to play around with the tension - adding or reducing the number of stitches until the tension square matches that in the pattern. This way, you know it's going to fit - believe me, there's NOTHING worse than spending weeks on a garment only to find that it's too big, or small or short or long!4. If you substitute yarn in a pattern check the length on the yarn (sometimes called yardage on the yarn band). I've fallen foul of this myself and discovered that the yarn I'd bought was considerably shorter than the one mentioned in the pattern. I'd thought I was saving myself money but with the extra yarn I'd had to buy it ended up costing me more! 5. There may be times when you have a bit of a break from your knitting. Leaving stitches on the needle for more than a week or so can stretch them out of shape a bit. If you've left it for more than a week, unravel the last row and rework it. Otherwise you may end up with a nasty ridge in your work.
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