Lesson Learned

This is the first of two table runners I'm making.  My plan was to use white monks cloth and a variegated turquoise yarn...looks like what you see, right?  Well, not all is well!

One of the things I tell my students is to be very careful when buying variegated yarn.  Always check how long each color is on the strand and try to keep it around 4-6" so that you won't have long stretches of one color in your pattern.  Apparently I didn't follow my own advice when I purchased the above yarn.

I've actually never seen a variegated yarn like this one.  There is approximately a stretch of one color that measures 3-4 FEET before changing to different shades each measuring 6-8" (too long but I'm stuck with it).  The variegated section also measures about 3-4 feet before once again returning to a solid color measuring 3-4'.

Because I don't need a lot of yarn to complete my project, I'm disposing of the solid sections and using only the variegated sections.  The waste is immense and bugs the life out of me.

I can only blame myself for not checking properly but, if what could be checked was the variegated, no-one would be able to tell that further along was that awful 3-4 feet of solid color.

Live and learn, I guess.