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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