Variegated yarn

I know a lot of knitters are multi-crafters, doing knitting as well as crochet or weaving or other yarn (or non-yarn) crafts. And of course yarn looks different when we use it in different crafts, …

You’ve probably seen wavy stitch patterns like Feather and Fan/Old Shale before. These patterns combine increases and decreases unevenly spaced across a row in such a way that it creates a wa…

Variegated is just another name for a yarn dyed multiple colors in one skein or cake. The final outcome of a variegated yarn project varies on technique and pattern. There...

Swiss Check Scarf If I had one inspiration for this scarf, it was the planned color pooling pictures that keep popping up in my Facebook feed (dude, I follow a lot of knitters). If I had two inspirations for this scarf, it was PCP (such a bad acronym!) and laziness; the idea of fiddling with a yarn and a design until I had nailed a certain color pattern seemed about as appealing to me as taking all three of my children to the dentist by myself for concurrent appointments. So I went with a…

When I first saw he V Stitch Waffle Crochet Stitch I thought I just had to try it! When I started crocheting it I realized that I'd already been using versions of this stitch in shawls and such,

Variegated yarn, or yarn dyed with more than one color, is one of my most favorite yarns to use. It can have more subtle changes

When I see some luscious variegated yarn, I love to make the Linen Stitch scarf from my book Reversible Scarves: Curing the Wrong Side Blues . One side ends up with a woven texture and the other bumpy, with tiny pops of color.