YARN, GAUGE, SIZE  AND MACHINE  Tamm Diamante yarn plus a skinny  strand of variegated yarn run along  with the main yarn get a gauge of 7 stitches/10 rows/inch on standard gauge machines. A ribber is required. Thread the  two yarns through the mast and tension mechanism as though they were a  single yarn. It works fine. The addition of the run-along strand makes  Diamante knit to a larger gauge than  it does on its own which allows us to  make larger sizes. My run-along is a thin industrial yarn remnant cone.  If you cannot find a suitable yarn in  the “yarn” department of your shopping resources, try serger thread. There are lots of nice ones and it is similar in weight  to the one I used.