to pool or not to pool
Colour pooling can occur when using variegated yarns. This is usually an undesired effect, which occurs when the colours instead of being distributed in a pleasing even way, end up blotched together, resulting in an unattractive pattern in the final project.
However, Karla Stuebing realized that in many industrial variegated yarns the colour distribution is completely regular. This allows to make what she calls planned pooling, which means using this regularity to plan beautiful pooling effects.
For lovers of geometric colour patterns, like myself, I recommend reading Karla Stuebing's really good tutorial.
If you go along and give it a try, you'll probably find this planned pooling calculator very helpful.
Note: on the paragraph on Argyle socks, Karla mentions a technique called sliding loop join in Intarsia, I think she is referring to the technique explained in this tutorial. She also mentions a planned pooling group in Ravelry which I believe to be this one, check out the truly lovely projects shared on this group, which include both planned and unplanned pooling.
However, Karla Stuebing realized that in many industrial variegated yarns the colour distribution is completely regular. This allows to make what she calls planned pooling, which means using this regularity to plan beautiful pooling effects.
For lovers of geometric colour patterns, like myself, I recommend reading Karla Stuebing's really good tutorial.
If you go along and give it a try, you'll probably find this planned pooling calculator very helpful.
Note: on the paragraph on Argyle socks, Karla mentions a technique called sliding loop join in Intarsia, I think she is referring to the technique explained in this tutorial. She also mentions a planned pooling group in Ravelry which I believe to be this one, check out the truly lovely projects shared on this group, which include both planned and unplanned pooling.
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