No Dye Lot Yarn Not Matching!

[fuzzy ferret]

Okay, I must vent a little! I bought the 2 skeins of Caron Simply Soft Yarn in blue mint to make the scalloped edge cami that is listed in the show and tell section of wearables and THE 2 SKEINS DONT MATCH IN COLOR!

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this stuff supposed to be a 'No Dye Lot' yarn? One skein is lighter than the other. And trust me, it is VERY noticeable!

 

Has anyone else ran into this problem? This has irritated me to no end.

 

 

Krystal

[squish_52]

I've had this happen to me! Caron one pound in the deep purple, grrr is all i can say

[lhasaapsolady]

Not with that specific yarn, but with others that say no dye lot. I notified the company and they replaced it.

[sprtsbear]

Had the same problem with SS in red. Very aggravating.

[ErinLindsey]

Red Heart yarn had an announcement on the Coats & Clark website why some of their no dye lot yarns suddenly had dye lot issues. Apparently it's a problem for most of the companies that produce acrylic yarns are having right now.

 

http://www.coatsandclark.com/Crafts/Crochet/Features/Red+Heart+Super+Saver.htm

 

The suppliers of the acrylic fibers went bankrupt and it's caused problems for all the manufacturers of acrylic yarns. It also might explain why some yarns went up in price recently too.

[classic crochet]

If you can't get a new skein you can crochet 1 row with 1 skein and then do the next row with the other. If you change off every other row it shouldn't be as noticeable. Hope this helps:hook

[jura2908]

i had this issue with the caron pounders. when i contacted them they informed me that they changed dyes. not sure if this is your issue. maybe one is older than the other. but they did send me out yarn to replace what i had from the older batch.

 

nadine

[jessc031778]

Oh, yeah!! I 've had this happen to me...with both the one pounders and Simply Soft....if it's really noticible, I usually return one skein and bring a bit of the skein I kept with me to compair to the rest of the skeins in the store...if I'm lucky I can find another skein that matches the one I already worked with....good luck!!

 

Jessie

[Debi Y]

I've had this happen with my favorite yarn, RHSS, in black. Very irritating.......

Debi Y.

[needlesandpinza]

A while back that happened to me too. I pick up all skein at the exact same time and triple checked to make sure. and you could not even notice the differnce till my whole shrug was made, the las 6" of my shrug are a bit darker.

I dhare your pain:hug

[Phoenix]

Yep, had this problem too. I tend to make someone go with me if I'm buying yarn for a work-intensive project to help spot color consistencies as my eyes are bad with color- I've been known to re-arrange a bin of super saver to group the "shades" of the same color together to try to help others avoid that problem!

[fuzzy ferret]

Thanks everyone for the great ideas. I've never had this happen before and it kinda bumfuzzled me. I just couldn't believe that a no dye lot yarn could suddenly have color issues. *LOL*

 

Thanks again!

Krystal

[ChayaSar]

I had this happen with RHSS Aran.... had a skein that when next to other arans looked dirty somehow...... oh i was so upset!!! And I have it happen with black ALL THE TIME.... none of my blacks match, lol, so i usually buy black 3-4 skeins at a time,