Knitting Peeves?

That's true however the pattern I was using (from knitters magazine) was for a bag where you start with about 6 stitches knitting in the round increasing until the variegated colors match up from one row to the next and then knit even to the top of the bag. You end up with vertical stripes that zig zag a little with your varying the tension. So you see it was essential that the colors remain in the same order from one skein to the next.

Betty

Well now you are getting philosophical. What really matters? Health, family, my eternal destination....

But my desired result was to have the stripes match all the way up the bag. So I guess in some small way it mattered.

Betty

Hello Betty, I am sure the bag must have turned out beautifully. I wouldn't have cared much if the stripes didn't line up. That is what being an artist and being unique is all about!!!! Fairwinner

Well I guess you had to see the article in the magazine to understand the technique the pattern was using. It was a very interesting study in tension and a lesson on how just a little difference in tension can make a big difference in the result. I wish you could see the article. It was in the summer 2002 of knitter's magazine.

It sounds like a really interesting pattern, and it would have annoyed me as well, if I couldn't do it due to the yarn.

I don't mind experimenting, but when I do, I like to have chosen to experiment. If the interesting bit of the pattern was the way the yarn was coloured, I'd have been upset too, if I couldn't get the effect I wanted.

I think I was more amazed than upset. the fix was easy just rewind the yarn in the opposite direction from how it came off the skein.

It just amazed me that you could buy two skeins of the same dye lot of machine made yarn and that they would be wound in opposite directions. I wouldn't have thought that possible. I could see it with hand dyed yarn. But then I would have had to probably wind my own skeins with that anyway.

If you find the pattern tell me what you think of it. Better yet give it a try and then tell me what you think.

I get lots of compliments on my bag from other knitters. Everyone is interested in how it was made.

Betty

You've never seen it worn because she wears it when she won't see you in case you wear yours?

Actually, I have a present from a friend which I wear two or three times a week, but somehow, I keep forgetting to put it on when I see her....

Kirsten