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What is Pooling? Pooling is a different way of looking at hand-dyed yarns. Instead of trying not to have the colours pool (stack on top of themselves within a project to form awkward or unbalanced blocks of a single colour), the yarn is manipulated at the cast-on so that when the project is knit the colours of the yarn will stack on top of themselves through the whole project to form vertical columns of colour. Lace or textural pattern with strong vertical lines will emphasize these vertical lines.

Why Pool? Sometimes we fall in love with a hank of hand-dyed yarn. We will fondle, hang-up, view, and then stress about what to do with this beautiful yarn. It is too colourful to knit lace with, the pattern will be lost in it – and knitting it the regular fashion may muddy up the colours as they blend together! Pooling solves both of these issues. The colours will only blend around the edges, and the lace will show beautifully in the solid colours. Perfection!

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