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A Good Yarn / Varigated yarn pooling
« on: December 28, 2020, 12:46:47 PM »
My parcel from Secret Santa aka @CraftyIrish included a 200gm ball of Aldi's Cotton Candy Rainbow Aran weight yarn which I have knitted into a hat, and added one of the pom-poms from the parcel.
I didn't plan it but have been pleasantly surprised with how the (unplanned) pooling of the colours worked out.
Colour sequence is:
Lilac, white, yellow, peach, lilac, peach, yellow, white, lilac.
96 stitches used just over one and a half repeats so lilac and yellow stacking with peach and white alternating.
On the ribbing this 'half repeat' moved to the left by 2 -3 stitches each round and resulted in diagonal stripes. When I changed to a bigger needle and different rib pattern I though that maybe the stripes would go in the other direction but actually the colours stacked vertically without any effort.
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The colours in the pic of it on my head are truest - and there is plenty left to make a pair of mittens; Aran weight is much too heavy for gloves. It will be interesting to see how the pooling goes with fewer stitches.
I didn't plan it but have been pleasantly surprised with how the (unplanned) pooling of the colours worked out.
Colour sequence is:
Lilac, white, yellow, peach, lilac, peach, yellow, white, lilac.
96 stitches used just over one and a half repeats so lilac and yellow stacking with peach and white alternating.
On the ribbing this 'half repeat' moved to the left by 2 -3 stitches each round and resulted in diagonal stripes. When I changed to a bigger needle and different rib pattern I though that maybe the stripes would go in the other direction but actually the colours stacked vertically without any effort.
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The colours in the pic of it on my head are truest - and there is plenty left to make a pair of mittens; Aran weight is much too heavy for gloves. It will be interesting to see how the pooling goes with fewer stitches.