Knitting Problems – Dye Lots
My daughter Jodi has invited me to post on her blog since I am always looking for someone to talk knitting with and my eleven year old daughter is getting tired of hearing about my escapades. I’ve learned a few lessons this past week that I thought I would share with you as they are important even for beginning knitting projects and it’s always good to analyze your knitting problems when they occur.
Knitting Problems – Not checking your yarn’s dye lot or dye batch number
I am in the middle of making one of my famous Felted Bags and it uses multiple skeins of yarn in each color. I did a normal yarn change and got a few rows into the new skein and realized I had a big problem. I bought these skeins at the SAME TIME from the SAME STORE! Look how different the colors are in the blue strip. I have always known that you should check the dye batch numbers but they usually seem to be the same when you grab two skeins off of the same shelf. Needless to say, I will be checking this for sure from now on.
Just thought I would share that. Even though I consider myself to be a pretty experienced knitter I still find myself making silly mistakes like this that are easily avoidable. When I come across something like that I will make sure to post here (if Jodi keeps letting me).
Have any of you had this knitting problem occur in one of your projects? I’d be interested to hear your story!
Tags: Easy Knitting, Knitting Problems
September 18th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I’m thinking of knitting a little sweater for Lexi out of that wool yarn, cause I’m getting tired of making bags. Would you be able to remember to wash in cold water delicate cycle? Otherwise it will be a felted sweater. that’s very small.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:26 pm
It could turn into a baby-doll sweater
October 7th, 2008 at 10:10 am
hey! a good way to combat that, is to… i’m sorry to say, restart the project. knit one row in one color and and the second row in the other, that way the changes are subtler.
i’m knitting a sweater in caramel/camel color and there’s a SLIGHT SLIGHT difference. in my sweater, i personally can not see the difference between one row or another, but with the balls side by side, you can tell one’s slightly yellower and the other slightly redder.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
sorry meant to say knit 2 rows in one color and 2 rows in another…
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:31 pm
I’m trying to begin knitting again after many years and have a really dumb problem. No matter how I cast on the stitches end up twisted. I try long tail,knit cast on and the whole lot. Any suggestions?