The Dreamknit guide
Knitting tips, techniques and inspiration
Everything you need to become a better knitter.
Nov 2, 2026
How to Adjust a Knitting Pattern to Your Gauge
Getting more or fewer stitches than the pattern? Here's how to adjust stitch and row counts to your own gauge, by hand or with our Gauge Calculator.
Oct 16, 2026
How to Choose the Right Knitting Pattern Size: Bust Measurements, Ease and Size Charts
How to choose the right knitting pattern size: measure your bust, pick the ease for the fit you want, and compare the finished bust circumference in our size charts for sweaters, cardigans, tops and accessories.
Oct 2, 2026
Knitting Needle Conversion Chart: US to mm, and Every Other Unit
US 8 or 5 mm? Inches or cm? The full knitting needle conversion chart, plus gauge, yarn amounts and body measurements, and the rules of thumb worth remembering.
Sep 24, 2026
Is Dreamknit AI? No, and Here’s Why
No, Dreamknit isn't AI. Our patterns are made with math and knitting logic we've written ourselves, so the same yarn and the same design choices always give you the same pattern.
Sep 12, 2026
Which Yarn Should I Use? A Guide by Project
You open our page of Yarns, and there they are. Seven hundred plus yarns, in every weight and fiber, and no idea where to start. That's normal. The right yarn isn't about brand or price. It's about what you're actually making. Here's a simple way to sort it out: pick your proj...
Sep 3, 2026
Knitting Chart Maker: How to Read a Color Chart and Design Your Own
Confused by knitting charts? Here's how to read a knitting color chart step by step, and how you can create your own personal charts.
Sep 3, 2026
How to Knit With Multiple Colors: A Guide to Colorwork Techniques
Stranded colorwork, intarsia, slip stitch, or duplicate stitch? Here's how each colorwork technique works, when to use it, and a video for every single one.
Aug 24, 2026
Yarn Weight Chart: All 8 Categories, With Gauge and Needle Sizes
A yarn weight chart for knitters: all eight categories from lace to jumbo, with stitches per 10 cm, needle sizes in mm and US, and yarns you'll recognize.
Aug 19, 2026
What decides the difficulty level of a design?
Why do some designs get difficulty level 1 and others 4? Here are the techniques that decide the difficulty of your Dreamknit knitting pattern.
Dec 12, 2024
Customize your own mitten pattern
Thumb, cuff, structure, decreases. You pick every detail yourself, and your mitten pattern is ready in seconds. Here is how it works.
Oct 9, 2024
Create unique knitted gifts for Christmas
Give a gift no one else has. Design a beanie, a pair of mittens, a scarf or a whole sweater in the size and colors you want, and get the pattern in seconds.
Aug 7, 2024
How to Knit a Gauge Swatch and Measure Gauge
If you've read a knitting pattern, you've probably seen the term "gauge" before. But what does it really mean and why is it important? Let's take a look!
Jun 28, 2024
Knitting pattern generator: how it works
What a knitting pattern generator is, how ours turns your choices into a finished knitting pattern, and how it compares to buying a pattern, modifying one or drafting your own.
Jun 17, 2024
Our favorite yarn combinations
Our favorite yarn combinations for your next dream sweater, from fine merino with mohair to double mohair, wool, heavy merino and tweed. Every one of them is ready to pick in Yarns.
Jun 17, 2024
About our sweater patterns
Considering designing your first knitted sweater in Dreamknit but would like to know more about our patterns first? Then you've come to the right place!
Jun 14, 2024
How to design your own knitting pattern: a beginner’s guide
New to designing? This guide takes you through the whole thing, from your first click in the design tool to casting on. Pick a garment, choose the details, add any yarn you like, and get a knitting pattern made for your choices.
Jun 14, 2024
5 tips for beginner knitters
The five things that actually make the first project go well: what to knit, what to buy, the two stitches you need, why the swatch matters, and what to do when it goes wrong.
Jun 14, 2024
Yarn Substitutes: Find an Alternative by Gauge
We love yarn and experimenting with different combinations and have compiled a list of yarns sorted by gauge to easily see which yarns can be substituted with each other.