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Variegated Yarn Surprise

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I am fascinated by variegated yarn and how colors in the yarn flow into each other in a knitted or crocheted piece.

I needed a smaller project for a recent trip we went on to the Carolinas (Charlotte, NC and Greenville, SC), which I will blog about in a future post, and so I randomly selected a variegated ball of yarn I found in my stash to start a new knit hat.

The yarn was either gifted to me by a friend; or was a ball of yarn I that I thrifted. The yarn was already rolled into a ball so I do not know what the original skein of yarn looked like. I could see some of the different colors on the perimeter of the ball or yarn but the whole set of colors was going to be a surprise to be revealed as I was knitting the hat.

Here is the yarn in the new yarn holder bowl I recently bought:

Here I am starting the hat on the Carolinas roadtrip I went out with our Asheville, NC based friends (who needed a break from their post Hurricane Helene life in Asheville – we nicknamed our vacation “The Clean Shower Vacation” they only recently got running water and the water they have is very murky and gross to shower in):

Here is the variegation in the ball of yarn unfolding as I work on the hat (it’s been a fun surprise):

I am waiting to see when the dark purple which begins the hat will resurface.

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  7. Tierney, I feel like this would be a fun variation of the White Elephant game for a yarn crafter’s Christmas party. Everyone brings a skein of variegated yarn already wound into a ball wrapped fancy. No one knows what their true gift is until they work it into a project.

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