Best afghan or shawl pattern for variegated yarn?

[Avon Lady]

Hi! I recently bought enough variegated yarn at a yard sale to make an afghan. Now my question is--what pattern is the best to show off a pretty variegated yarn? I can use some help! The yarn is cream/peach/light brown (don't know the color name--it was all rolled into large balls!!) (Hey! For $2.00--who am I to complain!?)

Thanks for any help you can give me!

Collette

[annmcc1976]

almost any afghan pattern is fine if you ask me... The sky is the limmit with varagated yarn. Diffrent patterns will make the colors lay out diffrently.

I never use to use patterns till no beacusei was unable to read them.. and i made normal afghans with dc just back and forth rows

[boogiedu]

ripple afghans look nice in variegated.

 

a word of caution about using yarn that's been wound into balls.

sometimes a person will stretch the yarn as they are winding and

if you crochet from those balls the first time the yarn gets a chance

to relax [like when it's washed] it will pucker in spots and never lay flat.

this happened to a friend of mine.

 

here's a good way to wind balls of yarn and if you leave a length

of yarn free at the beginning you'll have a center pull ball.

 

i don't recommend the type of yarn winder that

has a handle if the yarn has been stretched.

 

http://www.ehow.com/how_2063835_roll-yarn-from-skein.html#

[Avon Lady]

I agree--sometimes the wound balls are wound too tightly--so I'll be careful! But for the price--I couldn't pass it up--and those are my favorite colors also! Wish me luck!

 

ripple afghans look nice in variegated.

 

a word of caution about using yarn that's been wound into balls.

sometimes a person will stretch the yarn as they are winding and

if you crochet from those balls the first time the yarn gets a chance

to relax [like when it's washed] it will pucker in spots and never lay flat.

this happened to a friend of mine.

 

here's a good way to wind balls of yarn and if you leave a length

of yarn free at the beginning you'll have a center pull ball.

 

i don't recommend the type of yarn winder that

has a handle if the yarn has ben stretched.

 

http://www.ehow.com/how_2063835_roll-yarn-from-skein.html#

[boogiedu]

what i meant to put in my previous is that it might

be a good idea to rewind the balls of yarn.

 

i wouldn't have passed that deal up either.

[milkyway]

I've done RR in variegated yarn and they are beautiful. I just finished one for a friend, that was featured in the local papers. I did it in Caron Paints in Oceania. I'm doing 2 more in Rose Garden, and 1 in Red Heart Ocean

[mclendon1]

I love verigated yarn! My 1st RR was 2 strands w/ 1 verigated, w/ a matching solid. It turned out beautiful.

http://i589.photobucket.com/albums/s...h_100_1662.jpg

I've also done just a HDC V-Stitch for a whole afghan in verigated.

Just whatever you like will work! Happy hooking!