My wife is using a pattern from the Peoples Friend magazine. It says that using the King Cole Fjord wool a fair isle pattern is created automatically. The picture shows the hems as being a single colour, 12 rows according to the pattern.
However in the 3rd row a new colour appears.
Has anyone else used this pattern and had the same problem?
There’s probably not good control over where the skeins start. Some start in the middle of the solid color, some at the beginning, some at the end. Your wife may have to cut out the patterned part and get to some of the solid color again in order to get the solid color hem.
What is the name and number of the pattern?
You can see on this cardigan pattern that they have started the bottom ribbing in the “fair isle” section of the yarn’s patterned repeat.
https://www.kingcole.com/knitting-patterns/v-neck-cardigan-and-waistcoat-knitted-in-fjord-dk/
The yarn is printed by an amazing dye printing machine. It prints a certain length of yarn in each colour or pattern segment.
But the balls of wool don’t all start at the same place in the colour repeat. This means you might have to change the start point by winding off and setting aside some of the yarn if it starts in the wrong place.
What is the name and number of the pattern?
No details as it was in a magazine. Probably a King Cole but we can’t definitely identify it in their website pictures so I have scanned it in
Maybe this one? Although I’m not getting a result on ravelry. It seems it is a second option of 2 styles on the pattern?
If the are several balls of yarn your wife might look at the beginning of each and see which would be the best to start the body with (likely still pulling some out and cutting the yarn to start in the solid colour but cutting less off, if that makes sense? The cut off yarn can be used for seaming if there is any).
Also, planning ahead on the yarn balls can help. For example finding the same starting point for both sleeves on two different balls so that the sleeves turn out the same… unless she fancies an asymmetrical look to the sweater which is often beautiful too. Once identified, the 2 yarn balls can be labelled with a stitch marker as a reminder to save for sleeves.
And if a new yarn ball is needed mid front or mid back, to pull out the new yarn ball to get to the same point in the colour variation as the old yarn ball where it runs out, allowing a tail in each yarn end to weave in later.
