Simple Crochet Tip: Check Your Dye Lots
Newbies take note. Here is a piece of simple crochet advice.
When you buy a ball yarn, read the label. It will usually recommend hook sizes so that you don’t have to guess. It will also give you a gauge; that is, it will tell you how many stitches should make how many inches of crochet if you use the yarn in question and the recommended hook.
Also important is the dye lot. The label will give you a dye lot code, usually a few numbers and letters, that will indicate what lot the yarn was dyed in. The theory is that when two balls of yarn are dyed together, they will be the exact same color. When two balls of yarn are dyed in different lots, they run the risk of being slightly different shades. The difference in different dye lots is usually very subtle and maybe not visible to the casual observer. But if you are putting all that effort into a piece of work, even if it’s one of your earliest simple crochet pieces, you want it to be right from the start.
I have never seen two dye lots of the same yarn for sale at the same time in the same store, but I always check to make sure. You are most likely to see a difference, though, when you run out of yarn part of the way through a project and need to buy more. In that case, you may not find the same dye lot even if you go back to the same store. So plan well so that you can purchase all of the yarn you need at once and from a single dye lot.
More info for beginners in crochet:
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