Gauge swatch

I am embarking on knitting a sweater designed by ELizabeth Zimmermann for the first time. It is entirely seamless, you begin at the bottom, add in the sleeves as you arrive at the armholes and keep knitting until you get to the neck and cast off - simples (I hope)

Her patterns are not so much instructions as suggestions - they take some thinking about.

First you have to be precise as to how many of your stitches make up one inch. This is one way of doing it