15 Perfect Patterns for VARIEGATED Yarns

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Not sure how to use that variegated yarn? Here's a collection of 15 different knitting pattern ideas that make the most of those beautiful colors!
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🧶 KNITTING PATTERNS:
Hermione’s Everyday Socks by Erica Lueder
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Dancing Pink Pumpkins by KnitJoyz
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Contrast Blast Socks by ‪@StephenWest‬
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Heel Toe Do Si Do from ‪@CrazySockLady‬
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Mend by Dawn Barker
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Float by Dawn Barker
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The Simple Thing by Melina Bell
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City Lights Shawl from Under the Olive Tree
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Nightshift by ‪@dreareneeknits‬
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Easy by Martina Behm
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Timely by ‪@TrulyMyrtle‬
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Nordic Nights by Jennifer Steingass
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Nurtured by Andrea Mowry
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The Elton by ‪@jojilocat‬
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Pressed Flowers Cardigan by Amy Christoffers
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📌 CHAPTER LINKS:
00:00 Patterns for Variegated Yarns
2:10 Tip One
3:28 Tip Two
4:47 Stitch Pattern Inspiration
8:55 Sock Patterns
14:15 Shawl Patterns
20:41 Sweaters & Cardigans
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@NerdyKnitting Ай бұрын

Do you have any pattern recommendations for variegated yarns?

@chris112233ish Ай бұрын

Vanilla socks pattern…Crazy Sock Lady.

@Helens.crochet389 Ай бұрын

I couldn’t pull up that technique in YarnSub😩

@NerdyKnitting Ай бұрын

@@Helens.crochet389 Here you go: yarnsub.com/articles/techniques/taming-multicolored-yarns/

@Helens.crochet389 Ай бұрын

@@NerdyKnitting thank you very much. You can make some beautiful designs with your yarn. I thought I could put the description of my own varied yarn and gauge in the information boxes so that I could see what it looks like. Sorry I bothered you.

@zoedoodle9824 Ай бұрын

I've knit 4 Vary the Gate scarfettes. Makes a nice little neckerchief that stays put. Calls for fingering weight yarn but I've done 2 in DK yarns as well. I've only used it with half and half dyed in two tones and so I think my next one will be more wildly variegated.

@lindseywhite3371 Ай бұрын

You mention mosaic knitting a lot in this video, I would love more information on exactly what it is, how it works and, possibly, pattern recommendations for people learning to do it please.

@mwolfe7883 Ай бұрын

The Stephen west socks were a good example of what that is.

@WoolTheyWontThey Ай бұрын

Mosaic is a pretty easy way to get into colorwork. Basically it works the same as two-row stripes, only you slip the stitches where you want to use the opposite color. Then you knit those slipped stitches when you switch colors. There's a great book called Colorwork Bible by Jessica Ostermiller that has a chapter on it with a sample swatch to practice and some patterns. You can also filter on Ravelry to find some slip stitch / mosaic colorwork patterns.

@candinunya5211 Ай бұрын

As soon as i read your comment i instantly bought it. @WoolTheyWontThey

@WoolTheyWontThey Ай бұрын

@@candinunya5211 I love that book! It helped me so much when I was learning stranded

@rmonogue Ай бұрын

I’ve used Martina Behm’s patterns Graffiti Park and Brickless to knit shawls with variegated yarn. They both use garter, with Brickless adding in sections of eyelet and ribbing. I modified Brickless to make it deeper. If using a variegated yarn for stranded colorwork, make sure that all the colors have a good value contrast with your background color, or the colorwork will fade into the background.

@undertheolivetreeknits Ай бұрын

Thanks for the shout out for the City Lights shawl! 🥰 This is a great video to show what patterns work well with variegated yarns.

@NerdyKnitting Ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@CherylKotecki 26 күн бұрын

Great video in every way! Thank you!! I made simple infinity scarf/cowl using a mosaic chevron pattern, carried with a beautiful, solid laceweight yarn, and a contrasting plain yarn that I really like. I loved the variegated in the skein, but really hated it knitted. And it was actually a soothing calm variegate, with my favorite analogous colors (Blue, Turquoise and Green) - it just wasn't my cup o' tea by itself. I also used it in my Simple Something (Ankestrick) where again, it was held with a matching solid and worked well with my assortment of scrap yarns.

@susandouglas8187 Ай бұрын

Another technique for using variegated yarn is short rows. I’m thinking of freeform short rows following the color patterning in the yarn to form little “hills” in the knitting. I’ve experimented some and it doesn’t have to be exact. As long as you compensate for the previous hills eventually in subsequent rows (by making more hills), you can keep the knitting pretty flat. This might be interesting for yarns with random and fairly short stretches of color. It’s all bit rogue, but it’s fun. Of course, there are also plenty of conventional short-row patterns that make good use of long stretches of color in a more orderly fashion.

@NerdyKnitting Ай бұрын

Yes, that would work well too!

@Fel.M Ай бұрын

So I’m one of those people who visit yarn shops, is drawn to small hand dyed yarn (if local even better), and then realizes that I can’t afford 5 hanks. Then, as if the dyer knows me, I find ONE perfect skein with ALL the colors I want! 😊 however, I don’t want an unexpected patterning of the colors because, to me, it can make the colors look too different from the hank. The colors always look soft and perfect when hanked up and look harsh to me when lines and pools show up. All of that is to say, I really appreciate the time you put into a video like this. Thanks! PS my Simple Thing scarf is my most worn knit this spring. It’s SO squishy and awesome!

@lindas5964 Ай бұрын

This is exactly me! I got to the point where I didn’t want to use the yarn because when I worked it up it never looked lovely like the skein anymore. But then I knit “Flora Daze” and I LOVED it. It was a mingling in garter stitch, one color weaving into and out of another until yet another color joined the fun. I still didn’t understand why that scarf turned out so well when my sweaters were all harsh looking. Then I read some stuff with Dawn Barker who dyes yarn expressly for highlighting variegated yarn in a pleasant way. Problem solved! Now I can have the lovely skeins AND a lovely knitted item!

@Fel.M Ай бұрын

Oh! I’ll have to look into that pattern!

@maureenkirby514 Ай бұрын

Tonia, your use of pattern examples is so helpful. It's important to try to visualize the final product, though many happy accidents have happened by just going for it. I am actually doing Joji Locatelli's Cardigan 'All of the Lights' using 5 different variegated yarns, by alternating to create purposeful stripes. Sure I'll end up with a few ends to tuck in, but all good, it's been a fun experiment.

@NerdyKnitting Ай бұрын

Your cardigan sounds like it will be fabulous! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

@paulapovirk3322 Ай бұрын

I really like feather and fan for variegated yarns. I make a lot of baby afghans this way.

@user-dp3iu3hz7u Ай бұрын

I love the Papllion shawl. Variegated yarn for the main color is fabulous. I’m making one right now and I love it 😍

@ic7505 Ай бұрын

Thank you for all the work you do to produce this information. I was gifted a highly variegated colourful yarn and used in in the free Reyna shawl by Nora Buckland. Yarn was All You Need is Love in the colourway Murmur. Ravelry shows the colourway has blue ish but mine was pink, red, green, really rainbow. It was an easy knit and blocked out beautifully.

@nancyprinsze2211 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this series on using variegated yarns. I am drawn to them and end up with these beautiful yarns, especially from a yarn shop on a trip. Then I struggle with what to do, and change my mind over and over. Great ideas about choosing certain patterns and also stitch patterns. Your. videos are so interesting and helpful. ❤

@NerdyKnitting Ай бұрын

I'm glad you found some inspiration!

@theodoranorton4779 Ай бұрын

I have enjoyed this series very much, as I love variegated yarns. However, the whole tone of the series is that color change is rather a problem to be overcome. I find that the most important factor in optimizing color change yarns is consistency. A scarf or straight stole is the best way to show off the colorway that attracted you to buy it. If you want a cardigan, choose a design that uses same-size rectangles, juggling sleeve width and front and back pieces as necessary. If front and/or back is one piece, use two skeins and switch in the center. Real fanatics can do an initial sort-through of the skeins to gain some control of all the starting points. I just like to let the yarn do its thing,, which is certainly no sin. If you dislike pooling, etc., choose a plain yarn, or try copying a pattern from the yarn producer, as closely as possible.

@NerdyKnitting Ай бұрын

I'm sorry you found the tone to be negative - that wasn't my intention.

@valeriehowden471 Ай бұрын

Great patterns. I've always purchased 1 skein of variegated fingering to make socks. Will have to investigate those sweaters. Thanks

@sharbear1968 Ай бұрын

Hello Thank you for this 2nd video for variegated yarn. I love the suggestions and tips.

@nataliadie Ай бұрын

James N. Watt has several patterns using modular construction, where variegated yarns, especially those with long variegation sections can come into use: (Sungazer, Beads of Joy, and Penta Pillar pullover)

@NerdyKnitting Ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion!

@siobhanyamada-gu8dr Ай бұрын

I recently had this dilemma with wanting to make a sweater out of a highly variegated yarn. I ended up determining that a crochet top, crocheted across (from wrist to wrist) instead of top-down or bottom-up, with a half-double crochet stitch works amazing for breaking up the color pooling. I’m excited to use the website you mentioned with other yarns in the future. 😊 Thanks for sharing so many great tips. 6:59

@anngladstone9130 Ай бұрын

Thanks for another great variegated video! I have challenged myself with keeping a brioche pattern in my WIPs so I don't forget how to brioche (I'll forget after a couple years). I love the 2 color versions, so I plan on doing Suzanne Sommer's Brioche Mosaic Trilogy next with 2 solid skeins and 1 variegated. I have done the Easy, which is a good name for it. You start out at one corner, steadily increasing one side while slowly decreasing the other. At the 50% point, you'll start off small, increasing the outside as before while purling stitches together along the 'seam'.

@melissaspradley8901 Ай бұрын

I’m about 1/2 done with the second sock of a pair of Hermione’s everyday sock with a variegated yarn and I love how the pair has worked up! The variegation makes the texture pattern more subtle but the texture makes the socks look more like watercolor and less stripes or pooling.

@mrscarlier Ай бұрын

I listened to the end to see if you actually like these yarns.all of your comments concern fixing problems. I love the color changes of variegated yarns and I can’t put the project down because each stitch adds new personality. I wish this video shared my joy.

@lindas5964 Ай бұрын

I don’t think she meant any shade towards variegated yarn at all. And actually it seems the patterns she suggested actually accentuate the variegation. She’s just giving some options if you prefer a different look than just plain stockinette.

@ryankurth8080 Ай бұрын

This video was so inspiring! I normally can't afford pretty variegated hand-dyed yarns, but I found a sweaters quantity of some at the thrift shop a few weeks ago and could not pass it up. Problem is I'm now struggling to decide what to do with it! I was planning on suggesting Dawn Barker's assigned pooling patterns before you mentioned them; she has a ton that I love. My favorite is her Murder of Crows Sweater, though it requires that you have some pretty specific yarn, so it's not super generalizable.

@rachellarsen9614 Ай бұрын

The favorite technique I've seen with variegated yarn is planned pooling, where you use stitch counts with the colors to make a pattern that looks checkered or like plaid. It's time for yarn has a good intro to crochet planned pooling, I've seen it in knit as well, I just haven't done it.

@NerdyKnitting Ай бұрын

Oh, yes, planned pooling looks so neat! I think that could be a series of videos all about that topic!

@eugeniashen4819 26 күн бұрын

A great topic!

@lyndakuit7703 Ай бұрын

Mary Annarella of Lyrical Knits has great shawl patterns that would work fantastically with a combo of variegated and solids. She also uses a variety of stitch patterns in her shawls. Le Pouf Sweater and Le Pouf Cardigan (on Hedgehof Fibres and Ravelry) are patterns for variegated yarns.

@NerdyKnitting Ай бұрын

Thanks for some new recommendations!

@YarnJourneysMelanie Ай бұрын

Dawn Barker patterns are best knit with hand dyed yarns specifically designed for assigned pooling projects. She partnered with Madeline Tosh to design those yarns - check out Murder of Crows. I love knitting assigned pooling shawls - so fun because it’s easy to memorize the pattern and the yarn tells you when to switch stitches. The Bright Side shawl is knit with Cozy Color Works assigned pooling yarn - great travel and TV knitting project.

@joanmachado9063 Ай бұрын

Great podcast

@crys6375 Ай бұрын

I’m knitting the Steggie shawl by Noriko Ho. It’s a great stash buster pattern but also really fun for variegated yarn. I’m using a fade of colors from La Bien Aimee and the color transitions are really beautiful in this pattern.

@NerdyKnitting Ай бұрын

That sounds lovely!

@saulemaroussault6343 Ай бұрын

Of course there’s The Nightshift shawl on the thumbnail !

@Easystyling-1 Ай бұрын

So nice

@claretrevor8111 Ай бұрын

Great patterns! I’ve found helical knitting (with a neutral) can break up variegated yarns…

@carolyncaverly2190 Ай бұрын

Assigned pooling

@NerdyKnitting Ай бұрын

That could be a whole video series all on its own!

@KoalaMela Ай бұрын

Can you please share the pattern or pic of Hitchhiker Scarf you mentioned?

@NerdyKnitting Ай бұрын

Here you go - www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hitchhiker

@mollymaryna6118 Ай бұрын

Hi everyone. I understand that velvet yarn stretch out with time. What pattern is best for velvet yarn that can bring down the stretching? Happy knitting everyone!!!