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!
A little while later (won’t mention exactly how much later) I emerged from my room still a bit heavy-lidded and found somewhat of a disaster in my house. My skein of eyelash yarn was wrapped around the wall separating the kitchen from the family room, my needles were thrown into the fireplace, and alas, my scarf was ripped off the needle, half unraveled, and hidden behind the couch cushion. I think my son might have realized that I wouldn’t be too happy with him when I found the evidence.
