Can You Tell The Difference?

[Poochie]

I sure can....*sigh*..........

 

[redhead54]

Yep.

 

If it's an afghan, why don't you just use some other colors with it? med. tan, light tan, etc...?

[Poochie]

It's a hat....just for me...but still. It annoys me....

[niqita]

Is that from the same skein of yarn or 2 diffrent ones?

[eurolyons]

????? What difference...Difference in what? I'm confused.

[eurolyons]

never mind, I see it now...

[Poochie]

It's a famous...."No Dye Lot"....TLC Essentials.....blah.

[MrsLewis907]

I do not understand the "no dye lot" thing! I mean, how can there NOT be a dye lot? That can be super frustrating to see that kind of difference in colors when there's not supposed to have any differences in the first place, hence the "no dye lot", am I right? I'm a perfectionist though, and so I can imagine exactly how frustrating that can be.

[Shellybrook]

All I see is an x

[Tiga]

Yeah, I see it too.

 

Why not put a stripe of a lighter color right there, maybe cream, or of a darker color, like chocolate, then use the new skein.

 

Or do a different, more open stitch pattern right there at the change, and then it won't be so noticeable.

 

I think only other yarny crafters would notice it as it is anyway, so with a stripe of a different color or stitch, it'll look fine.

 

There ARE numbers on no dye lot skeins you can match up, and I always try to find them and do that.

[rainbowridergrma]

The sad thing is that a lot of times you do not notice the difference under artificial light, but get it out in daylight and it is blatently obvious. My husband who knits and I have both been burned by this. So sorry this happened to you. The suggestions that have been made are really good ones. I just don't know how we can protect ourselves from this.

 

Glenda

[QueenOfCrochet]

I've had this "no dye lot" thing happen one too many times. I do notice the difference but agree with putting together different shades of brown or another color. Everyone will think you made it that way. Good Luck!

[alibra]

Sorry, but yes!

[qwaychou]

Yes, I see it. If the stripe of lighter yarn doesn't work for you, FROG and hold a strand of both of them together, it will be a very subtle tweed.

[livedinalaska]

grrrrr

[frogsrock]

i dont think i would have noticed it if you didnt mention it

 

but if i were you id use another color like cream or chocolate, like someone else said

[oliveoil]

Why do they say, "NO DYE LOT", when there apparently is a big DIFFERENCE!! So sorry about your problem!! Hope all the ideas you get from here help you out!!

[darski]

The most annoying part is that they are too different and not different enough. IYKWIM

[Real Deal]

One of the big yarn companies announced a few months ago that the days of the "No dye lot" are coming to an end. The 2 biggest suppliers of acrylic went bankrupt, and they did the "no dye lot" dying, which had something to do with the enormous amounts they processed. The big yarn companies are scrambling to get all the other suppliers on maximum.

 

In the meantime, they said our yarn supplies are OK, but the first ones to be affected are the light colors, especially whites, off-white, beige, cream, all those types of colors, and light blue. Always check for dye lot numbers on these.

 

I personally noticed that the variegateds do come with dye lot numbers and are sometimes quite different. I bought some camo that was.

 

After I read this notice, it occurred to me how much of a push there is now on cotton, bamboo, soy, and silk. I just saw corn. Wool. Mountains of wool. I haven't seen this kind of use of wool since I was a child and my grandmother used wool, because she grew up with it.

 

No matter what, we should check all labels, and make visual color comparisons from now on.

[Angora]

awww.. i feel your pain.. i second the idea of putting in a stripe of a lighter color and then re-starting with the new "different" brown

[Poochie]

*sigh*...it's just for me so maybe I'll just leave it like that. This hat is to be worn so the lines go up and down....not round and round...kwim? So...3/4's of my hat will be one brown...and 1/4 will be the other brown...LOL.

At least it will be unique!

[purlwise]

Yep I see it. Same thing happened to me. I will say though, that the yarn texture even looks a little different. Can you incorporate some kind of intarsia pattern for a row or two and then start up with the MC again?

[Adreeyen]

I would just use the two colors as "stripes" y'know maybe 6rows of one color, 2 rows of the other. That way if someone did notice, they'd think it was intentional. Yup, that's me the queen of redneck chic!

[HomekeepingGran]

I'm so sorry, Poochie, and boy, can I identify. My first Seraphina took about 2¼ skeins. While attaching the third skein I realized the second skein I had crocheted in was a different color. Caron Simply Soft. Grrrrrrrr. I had to rip out a whole skein of work and start again. Actually I was so frustrated I stuck the thing in the trash but later retrieved it to go ahead and finish.

[shelly_bean]

yes. and that has happened to me with a blanket for my mom, it wound up ok with the darker colors on the ends and light in the middle but it made me soo mad I didn't want to finish the afghan and hated working on it.