Knitting Patterns: Materials

Video Transcript

"So, when you're in the yarn store and you got your pattern and you come to materials, it's going to tell you how many yards of a specific yarn you need to make this pattern. So, for our example, we had color one and color two. So, you need two colors of the yarn and then you're going to need needles. Are you going to need different sizes? You're going to need thin needles thicker needles. Are you going to need straight needles or double pointed needles? Then you might need some of the notations we talked earlier. So, you might need stitch holders or you might need some of the stitch markers and then as this is going to be a cardigan, you would need a certain amount of buttons and then it would go on to tell you the gauge and this is the really critical part that we'd spend a lot of time on because it'll tell you how many stitches to the inch you need to get to make the pattern come out the way it looks in the picture which is what you drew it to in the first place. So, that specific yarn that you see would be either a worsted or a chunky or a bulky and that would give you a certain number of stitches to the inch when you knitted the way they knitted when they wrote the pattern."