Thank you for this info! I have just dicovered color pooling. I have yet to start a project and finding this video will save me lots of time. Again thank you!
Hello! Love this video thank you!!! Trying to make Christmas towels with the sugar and cream cotton cones. Normally I want to pool my yarn but for once I dont! It keeps pooling the colors into cow spots and the towels dont look as good! I have tried starting out in different parts of the color sequence but somehow even with that and my tension, I keep getting the colors into cow spots😖i used this yarn for exact same project of last year gifts, just wanted it in a diff. Color this year, but I dont like how they look, I'm sick of pulling out rows!
I'm sorry to hear that. Its not a yarn I'm familiar with but you could trying slightly changing the width of the towels you're making. That should have the colors line up differently. There is only online tools that can help you see the pattern before you start working with the yarn. I dont know them off the top of my head but Google should be able to point you towards pooling calculators
Hi Farhath, I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. The color sequence in the yarn is created by the manufacturer. The repeat happens naturally if the yarn has a consistent repeating pattern.
Color pooling is incredible and looks to be both interesting to the point of absolute addicting (in a positive way). As human beings we think of addictions of be negative but there are also positive ones which from good interests make you a better person. Life abhores a vacuum, which is if you quit a negative addiction like over-eating, drinking alcohol, drugs, etc., you have to replace that behavior with a positive behavior which you will love and won't hurt you. Like taking a walk to help you lose weight, working with yarn helps you to concentrate and while having fun, and solving problems, gives you a great feeling both while you make a project and pride in that "hey, I actually did that!" My husband thinks my addiction to knitting and crochet, is a positive addiction and I agree, much better than meds to keep me calm and far less costly than sitting in a psychologists office. Working with yarn helps you ignore chronic problems like some kinds of pain and releases endorphins so it helps with pain. It helps with patience in that what patience is -- is finding something to do to keep you busy while waiting for something you are often powerless to change, to resolve itself. Instead, it gives you something to do which you CAN solve and this feels great. It helps make the world a more beautiful place. I have chronic ringing of the ears. Working with yarn keeps me feeling more well. And guess what, while being told "you didn't do that", which I found offensive when Obama said it, "No, I did!" And I've solved things doctors could not solve or help me cope with, like Tinnitus. I cured my arthritis, I cured my mood swings, I cured my nervousness. I did that while making gifts for everyone I love and kept my sanity. I love this video and your enthusiasm. I hope you are able to bless many people with your tutorials.
Hi Melanie, it's the same concept as pooling with any other yarn with shorter color changes. The first row of stitches will cycle through all (or only half of your full color cycle.) The next row will do the same thing. On your third row your colors should line up except for the first and last stitch they will move one to the left or one to the right of the last stitch of the color on row one. You want to pay attention to color shifts in all the odd numbered rows as one shift and all the even rows as another shift. Continue on in that method until you begin to see the diagonals form. A half color cycle will give you a zig zag and a full color cycle will give you argyle. With a striping yarn you will have a VERY long beginning chain. I believe the Caron Stripes I used had 27 stitches per color for 4 colors on my row 1. I hope that make sense.
Thank you. I hope it works out for you. It can be a little annoying to get it going the first time through. There was a lot of frogging before I got it just right!
Hi Lita, sorry for the delay, I had to look through old pictures for the label. If you are referring to the one on the table while I am showing how to look the yarn that is Loops & Threads Impeccable in Tropical Storm.
You only have 6 color repeats in the entire ball of RHSS Mexicana? That is not the case for the Mexicana that I have. The ones I have purchased generally have a fairly short color run or a few stitches each.
Thank you for sharing this simple way to see if your yarn will pool.
Thank you, the information about finding the matching pooling cycle is priceless....!!!!
Thank you so much for explaining this! Yarn pulling to make certain the colors will pool is excellent to know!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this video! I'm less than 2 min in and I have learned something helpful!
Thomasean Britten thank you. I'm glad I was able to help.
Thank you for this info! I have just dicovered color pooling. I have yet to start a project and finding this video will save me lots of time. Again thank you!
Happy to help Katina.
Hello! Love this video thank you!!! Trying to make Christmas towels with the sugar and cream cotton cones. Normally I want to pool my yarn but for once I dont! It keeps pooling the colors into cow spots and the towels dont look as good! I have tried starting out in different parts of the color sequence but somehow even with that and my tension, I keep getting the colors into cow spots😖i used this yarn for exact same project of last year gifts, just wanted it in a diff. Color this year, but I dont like how they look, I'm sick of pulling out rows!
I'm sorry to hear that. Its not a yarn I'm familiar with but you could trying slightly changing the width of the towels you're making. That should have the colors line up differently. There is only online tools that can help you see the pattern before you start working with the yarn. I dont know them off the top of my head but Google should be able to point you towards pooling calculators
Thank you so much can you please explain how to do a repeat of colour sequences
Hi Farhath, I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. The color sequence in the yarn is created by the manufacturer. The repeat happens naturally if the yarn has a consistent repeating pattern.
Color pooling is incredible and looks to be both interesting to the point of absolute addicting (in a positive way). As human beings we think of addictions of be negative but there are also positive ones which from good interests make you a better person.
Life abhores a vacuum, which is if you quit a negative addiction like over-eating, drinking alcohol, drugs, etc., you have to replace that behavior with a positive behavior which you will love and won't hurt you. Like taking a walk to help you lose weight, working with yarn helps you to concentrate and while having fun, and solving problems, gives you a great feeling both while you make a project and pride in that "hey, I actually did that!"
My husband thinks my addiction to knitting and crochet, is a positive addiction and I agree, much better than meds to keep me calm and far less costly than sitting in a psychologists office. Working with yarn helps you ignore chronic problems like some kinds of pain and releases endorphins so it helps with pain. It helps with patience in that what patience is -- is finding something to do to keep you busy while waiting for something you are often powerless to change, to resolve itself. Instead, it gives you something to do which you CAN solve and this feels great. It helps make the world a more beautiful place. I have chronic ringing of the ears. Working with yarn keeps me feeling more well.
And guess what, while being told "you didn't do that", which I found offensive when Obama said it, "No, I did!" And I've solved things doctors could not solve or help me cope with, like Tinnitus.
I cured my arthritis, I cured my mood swings, I cured my nervousness. I did that while making gifts for everyone I love and kept my sanity.
I love this video and your enthusiasm. I hope you are able to bless many people with your tutorials.
Thanks so much!!! My yarn should pool if I get the next step!!
2sweet4umarie good luck! Once you get the hang of it it goes quickly.
I'm new to pooling, how do you pool with the rhss stripes yarn?
Hi Melanie, it's the same concept as pooling with any other yarn with shorter color changes. The first row of stitches will cycle through all (or only half of your full color cycle.) The next row will do the same thing. On your third row your colors should line up except for the first and last stitch they will move one to the left or one to the right of the last stitch of the color on row one. You want to pay attention to color shifts in all the odd numbered rows as one shift and all the even rows as another shift. Continue on in that method until you begin to see the diagonals form. A half color cycle will give you a zig zag and a full color cycle will give you argyle. With a striping yarn you will have a VERY long beginning chain. I believe the Caron Stripes I used had 27 stitches per color for 4 colors on my row 1. I hope that make sense.
kittield11 you are amazing! Thank you so much!
Thank you. I hope it works out for you. It can be a little annoying to get it going the first time through. There was a lot of frogging before I got it just right!
Is that Red Heart Super Saver in Reef at the end of the video?
Hi Lita, sorry for the delay, I had to look through old pictures for the label. If you are referring to the one on the table while I am showing how to look the yarn that is Loops & Threads Impeccable in Tropical Storm.
My ball of rhss Mexicana has a 5 set of 6 colours repeat, using the same method you use.
You only have 6 color repeats in the entire ball of RHSS Mexicana? That is not the case for the Mexicana that I have. The ones I have purchased generally have a fairly short color run or a few stitches each.