Last night while watching the Olympic opening ceremonies I finished the second sleeve of the Eris cardigan. I reshaped the lower sleeve so it wasn’t so big around my wrist and it appeared to turn out much better. I planned to go back and reknit the bottom of the first sleeve to match.
Before grafting the two ends of the hem together I held the sweater up to admire how it was turning out.
And faced disaster.
The last third of the body, including the short rows and the cables and the hem, and the second sleeve don’t match the rest of the sweater. The color is a deeper bloodier red than the rest of the sweater. Both sections are knit from a new skein of yarn I just wound this week. You can see (or maybe not, trust me it’s there) a clear line at the top of the sleeve and around the bottom of the sweater.
How could I have missed this? There are color variations throughout the sweater which I like but this looks like a completely different shade. I know experts recommend knitting from two balls of yarn with hand dyed yarn but I didn’t have to do that on the rest of the sweater.
At first I thought maybe it’s because I’ve wet blocked the rest of the sweater a few times and the dye has exhausted more from one part than the other. So maybe the new ball of yarn that I used for the bottom of the sweater will also exhaust more dye and catch up with the sweater? But then I remembered that I’ve already soaked the whole sweater except for the second sleeve and I don’t see any change in color.
And I wove in the ends last week.Why didn’t I see it then?
Bloody hell.
I was this close to being finished.
Knitting breaks my heart again. I should sell my stash and take up golf.
Yikes! I thought that stuff only happened to me!! Oh my, what to do huh? Do you have more yarn? Or will you be like me and say to heck with it and wear the damn thing anyway???!!
Oh, what a crying shame. And I’ve had the experience where a yarn shop owner on the phone has said to me, “It’s a different dye lot, but *I* can’t see the difference.”
Yeah. Right.