Good Colour Pooling The photo above shows what one gets when variegated yarn is used to knit. This particular sample is one where the colour pooling or the way the different colours come together is satisfying to the eye. However depending on the length of the row being knit and/or the length of the colour blocks in the yarn, things can go wrong. Colour pooling that is not so satisfying If you look closely at this sweater front you can see that the striping above the armpits are relatively horizontal until increases are made for the bust. At that point and below you see the horizontal lines begin to slant downward and by the time the front is completed, the blue is completely pooling in the lower right-hand corner and there are almost vertical striping on the left. This is the type of pooling knitters generally don't like. In fact because of pooling many knitter avoid using variegated yarn altogether. Just to put ...
Getting it together one stitch at a time.