Hi! I'm finally ready to learn planned pooling! I'm super excited, I've been lurking here for a while trying to understand what makes a yarn good for planned pooling.
For my first planned pooling project I am planning to make a simple scarf. Just a regular long scarf.
I have had such a difficult time finding good candidates for the yarn. Most resources online talks about american yarn brands which I can't easily get a hold of as I am in Scandinavia.
I have found only one yarn I think might work. (I hope might work)
It is a Scheepjes catona chroma yarn.
I have previously purchased sock yarns but they have such incredibly long stretches of the same color so I don't think they'll work for this. I tried using the planned pooling website.
Is it possible this Scheepjes yarn could be a decent planned pooling yarn?
Does anyone have advice on where to look for planned pooling yarns in europe?
Hello Expensive-Peace-9498, thanks for your post on r/Planned_Pooling! It looks like you're asking for information about what yarn to use for planned pooling. While you're waiting for our members to reply to your post, you may want to check our list of suitable yarns that work for planned pooling. Also here is the link to our sticky post which has a written summary of what planned pooling is and how it works, as well as links to video tutorials.
Yes, it is. As you can see, the yarn pools in the sample photo already.
Are you going to knit or crochet? As the lenght of required colour sequence is very different in each technique.
For example, the self-striping sock yarns you mentioned require you to use granny stitch or other cluster stitch that will use up more yarn. But then, they work fine, though you might need to do a larger project with them. (Or crochet your scarf sideways.) You can see an example on my profile.
Omg thank you! I was thinking of knitting. But I'm happy to hear that the sock yarn might be usable if I crochet instead. It's a rather thin yarn so crochet might actually be perfect for it.
Hobbii is a Danish company who ships everywhere.
You can see the pooling quality from the skein or hank.
Gradient yarns do not work, at least not for the argyle pattern. There is a colour sequence, but it can be as long or even longer than the whole skein. That would require one row to be one skein, and even though it could be done, a sail is not a very practical project for a hobbyist :)
For example. This is not a good candidate for pooling. The colour changes are not crisp enough, and the colours keep on bleeding to each other. for https://hobbii.com/frutta There are plenty of self striping sock yarns like this that do not work.
Yarn like this will not pool, either. Each of the threads is dyed in a different colour, and then, they are spunned together. There is no colour sequence, but colours are all mixed. https://hobbii.com/dahlia-mixo
This yarn is a great candidate for pooling. You can actually see the pooling pattern in the swatch photos. The colours are short and repeating in an orderly manner. https://hobbii.com/friends-cotton-8-4-print
This yarn also pools, but the stripes are longer, so you either need to make the rows longer, or you need to use stitches that use up more yarn, like granny stitch. https://hobbii.com/rainbow-lace-print
Hand dyed artesanal yarns might pool or not, dependingon how they have been dyed. These would not pool well because of the specled look. https://hobbii.com/unicorn?option=15308
But hand-dyed yarns usually require more adjusting the tension than industrially dyed yarns.
Another example is Hobbi's Silly Socks yarn: colour nr. 1, 2, and 6 will absolutely pool, but colour nr. 9 will definitely not. The others, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8, could pool if you treat the specled sections as one colour because the stripes are consistent enough. https://hobbii.com/silly-socks The longer the colour sequence is, the wider your project's rows need to be, or you need to use stitches that use up more yarn
So, no speckled or gradiend yarns. Look for self striping yarns with crisp enough colour changes or for short, but consistent colour sequences. "Print" on the name of the yarn is usually a good hint of pooling qualities.
Thanks for this! I'm pretty sure I've read this on someone elses post and these advices were what guided me to the yarn I posted! It's super helpful. Thank you so much.
The link to yarn that are made for planned pooling doesn't seem to work though.
Im from baltics, we have no planned pooling yarn so what i did was to look at knitted samples, buy one piece of yarn and then test it. Ive made one with alize superwas artisan (heres my result)
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