Tag: variegated yarn
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Clapotis
I was listening to a podcast by Helen Stewart (Curious Handmade) and she was doing an interview with Amy Singer of knitty.com. Amy mentioned Clapotis as one of their most popular patterns and I realized I had never knit it. I do not generally jump on a design band wagon, but when a pattern is…
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Multi Colored Yarn Talk
Last Saturday I’d been asked to talk to the Salt Lake Knitting Guild about the best ways to use multi colored, or variegated, yarn. Because I live with the stuff, it’s easy to forget the details of its confounding effects on so many knitters. I mean, I know it can be intimidating, and it takes…
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Strandwanderer: Variegated Yarn Cleverness
I’d been eying the Strandwanderer pattern of Lea Viktoria’s for some time before I finally cast on. Having cast on, it then took a bit of knitting before I had anything to show for it. In and amongst all the knitting, I had plenty of time to think about the pattern design, (along with watching…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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When Variegated Yarn Calls
For me, a knitting project often begins with a skein of yarn. You probably know that feeling. In my house, that skein is almost always a variegated yarn. This little gem resulted from a one-off lot of Sock. Every couple weeks I survey my little studio and discover that all my dye-mixing bottles have little…
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Variegated Yarn Variations
A week ago I took Shirley Paden’s Knitwear Design class. Pre-class homework involved swatching for the garment we were going to design. I’ve had a pound of merino DK weight yarn, dyed in a range of greys, black, and bits of lavender in the stash for some time, and with this class approaching, it started…