Comments on: Tuesday’s Tip – Alternating Skeins when using Hand-Dyed Yarns

By: Chatterbox Knitter

Chatterbox Knitter — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:28:00 +0000

There actually is a ratio for using skeins of different lots or using hand dyed yarns. It really depends on how many skeins you have overall. Alternating using the 2/1; 3/2; 4/3 etc. works really well. Just carry the alternate yarn on the edge so you won’t have a bunch of ends to work in later.
Then again you can purposely change dye lots to put emphsis in an area. For instance: I saw some beautiful hand dyed yarn I HAD to have. I needed three skeins. They have two of one dye lot and a single that was close but had a bit more peach and green in it. So when I looked at my shawl pattern I saw where I could use the peachier one in the center and in the second ring of the pattern. Then I will use the two skeins on the first ring and the last ring. Depending how much of the peachier one I have my edge may be of that one.

By: Vicky

Vicky — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:18:00 +0000

Currently knitting a cardigan with 2 different dyelots of commerciial wool, knitted the bask in one dyelot. Finished the back & 1 sleeve so as to tally what was needed to complete the remaining half, realised i would be cutting it fine so added a lace pattern above the armhole decrease on all pieces, so now have an original that looks like is from the one dyelot.

By: stefanie

stefanie — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:58:00 +0000

It’s also not nearly as annoying to do as one might think – and TOTALLY worth the finished results. Thanks for sharing this tip!

By: Ebockley

Ebockley — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:58:00 +0000

Even within one skein there are great differences. I knit socks two at a time and split the skein in two. It looked like I knit each sock with a different skein! Just gotta live with it!

By: Allie @ Fiesta Cat Yarn

Allie @ Fiesta Cat Yarn — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:55:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing this smart, simple tip!