For some reason I keep falling in love with variegated yarns - then once they've been wound or knit, I want to vomit from the color chaos. Why can't I seem to remember this, especially when throwing down over $50 for an especially sexy skein??
Any one else have this problem? I keep thinking maybe I'm just picking the wrong kind. I LOVE things like this amazing cardi
featured on my effing favorite blog ever,
Knitted Bliss:
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| adore. EVERYTHING. about this. |
Or this
delightfully tasteful Noro piece:
But for some reason I keep ending with something like this:
Guaranteed not to stripe?!?! That's something people were going for?!?!
I love gorgeous color combinations but can't handle when they are mashed together to look like a snow screen on an old TV. Pure nausea.
So basically today I'm depressed to know that this:
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| gorgeous |
...will at it's best, become this:
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| color stew |
Of course, this is just me - I can grip that some people love this. And the woman who worked this shawl above is DIVINE and I envy her steady hand. I'm sorry if anyone loves this and thinks I am nutso. I also happen to hate it when my food touches other food on a plate. So...
clearly I'm nutso. I am also too depressed to find a pattern for this yarn I bought yesterday. Sigh.
Aw, thanks for the blog love! I think what you're looking for is striping yarn, ones with long colour repeats (as in the first two examples on your post). Variegated ends up more as colour stew, for sure, but it always depends on the project and the stitch- stockinette with long colour repeats will stripe beautifully, but in garter or a textured lace, will be totally different. I always think swatching is critical with yarns that have a variety of colours in them.
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