yarn pooling

8 Responses to “yarn pooling”

On February 19th, 2008 at 6:59 am Liette said:

I asked the same question a bunch of times. The responses that I got were to go up in needle size and down in pattern size and GAUGE GAUGE GAUGE! *lol* I gauged a LOT! I finally started knitting size small on 1US dpn’s. Beautiful strping, but I just couldn’t get it over my ankle, so I went up to size medium and it started pooling on my (more like swirling). But one I started knitting size medium on size 2US dpn’s and they fit nice and snug and striped up like the picture on the pattern! Hopefully this helps!

On February 19th, 2008 at 7:00 am Liette said:

Oops! Forgot! Also, if you do a site search, there is a thread on pooling that might answer a lot of your questions as well.

On February 19th, 2008 at 7:47 am Kristin Lovegren-Boyle said:

I’ve just checked out photos on Ravelry, it looks like alot of people just went ahead and knit despite the pooling…they all look fabulous!

On February 19th, 2008 at 8:32 am Meg said:

My first sock striped down the leg and then half the foot, but pooled in the end, and it looks great! It’s serendipity!

On March 1st, 2008 at 1:40 pm Karen Sobel said:

Due to unusual foot and leg size - I started with the large size (which pooled) and the reduced to the medium and it stiped quite nicely - for the foot - quite interesting actually and certainly one of a kind. Quite pleased with the result - actually I am one of those people that preferred the pooling - as it wrapped around like a dragon

On March 4th, 2008 at 3:50 am Kristin said:

Karen, you are so right! It has that swirly Chinese dragon look to it!

On March 5th, 2008 at 12:49 am CurlyBrunette said:

I noticed that most of the Serendipity socks on Flickr and Ravelry have striping and mine has pooling. I am knitting to gauge and wonder why this happens to just a small amount of us. Dont get me wrong, I dont mind the pooling but am a little jealous of all the pretty stripes I am seeing out there! Oh well, they’re still beautiful. On another note I have knitted with STR where one sock striped and the other pooled. I just call them fraternally unique socks!

On March 5th, 2008 at 10:23 am adrienne in the bellybutton of california said:

pooling vs striping with the same yarn has to do basically with the number of stitches and gauge. i have found that i can control the colors to a certain extent by knitting tighter or looser…thus moving the color forward or backwards.

on my second sock, i was getting 4 rows of striping instead of 3 (on my first sock). by knitting tighter, i was able to “move” the color forward and get 3 rows of striping again.

you might need to just play around with needle size and gauge. if seems that all the sizes have striped (different widths of stripes but still stripes).

the stripes are not really stripes…they actually swirl around the socks. so if you can speed up the swirling, they will look like stripes. you can frog and try again if you are getting mild pooling. just knit a bit tighter to get the color moving.

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