I saw this really neat cabling technique (she calls it fission knitting, exemplified in the linked pattern) that ends up allowing you to put 2 different, colored, cable patterns on either side of your fabric, but part of it is holding yarns in a marl when they aren’t in the cable. I don’t know if it is just the yarn I chose to test the technique out (some spare balls of DK weight green and yellow acrylic yarn), or my gauge or what, but I am not a fan of how splotchy it is ending up, I want some more of a blend between the 2. Anyone have any tips for getting a marl to blend a bit more?
The only trick I know is to slightly twist the two yarns as you knit. It slows you down a little but it’s easy to do as you’re knitting the yarns. I hope there’ll be some better suggestions for you.
Could the splotchiness be a result of the colour combination? Looking at the other projects on Ravelry, the bright blue / yellow project looks more splotchy than the other projects which have harmonious rather than contrasting colours. I wonder if you’d get more of the look you’d want by using one colour as a neutral or by choosing two colours that are closer to each other on the colour wheel?
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Yeah, the green/yellow I grabbed was just because I had some spare balls of some easy yarn and wanted to just see how the technique worked out, I was always planning on unraveling it once I figured out how the technique works.
Twisting the yarns unfortunately won’t work (unless I did so and then undid so all the time) because the design stitches need to be worked in just one yarn.
Any knowledge on maybe holding more finer weight yarn together for blending? Like, instead of 2 DK, 4 Fingering weight, 2 in each color?