March 23, 2013
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Poncho KAL – Prep: The yarn
Since this is going to be designed as I knit, there will be a few things I need to decide before I can begin.
First, the yarn. I’m using already purchased, stashed away yarn for this project.
I have a 32 ounce giant ball of soft worsted weight acrylic in a medium denim color I’ll be using. I don’t expect to use it all, but I’ll have it if I do.
If you are knitting along with me, you have a few options for yarn.
You can get 32 ounces of yarn all the same color and dye lot.
Or decide to buy yarn as you go.
One potential problem with buying as you go is that you may have skeins that don’t match the rest of your yarn, even if you go with the same color.
You don’t have to knit it all in one color as I am.
You can do stripes if you choose, or each element a different color, or gradients from dark to light of a single color, or any other color option you wish.
I would suggest you begin and end with the same weight of yarn, and the same fiber type for the whole project. I’ve tried mixing it up with weight and fibers and it didn’t always work out so well. Something like this, that will have a bit of weight to it, you’ll probably want to have one fiber and weight the whole way through.
Next up, design decisions.
