Tag: color

  • Free Pattern Saturday: Pooled Infinity Scarf

    Free Pattern Saturday: Pooled Infinity Scarf

    Football season’s starting: the crowds cheer, the players adjust their mouth guards, the commentators comment, the search for game-friendly knitting projects is on! This scarf works up quickly in the round. It’s almost entirely knit in stockinette with a simple picot edge for added interest. It offers a fresh take on variegated yarn, working with…

  • Of Barber Poling and Pools

    Of Barber Poling and Pools

    Barber poling and pooling describe two frequent ways in which variegated yarn behaves badly. Of course, “behaving badly” is entirely in the eyes of the beholder, but that’s another story.  Barber poling describes one or more yarn colors aligning row after row to form diagonal stripes, and pooling describes great blobs of color formed as…

  • Knitting Stitches to Show Off Variegated Yarn

    What knitting stitches to apply to that glorious skein of yarn that found you last weekend at your favorite store?  If it’s a multicolored hand-painted beauty, that’s far from an idle question. Here’s a little collection of simple, small repeat patterns perfect for things like socks or mittens, where ginormous complicated patterns don’t fit well.…