Today I rediscovered, much to my chagrin, a downside to working with hand-dyed yarn. I joined in a new ball (same dye lot and all), and found after a bunch of rows that there was a noticeable difference between the colors in the new and old skeins -- the new one was much darker. Since I was working on the front of the sweater, this was really bad. So I ripped out an entire evening's work and took stock of the remaining yarn. I found that of the two hanks I hadn't yet wound, one was the same shade as the rest of the sweater and the other is the darker shade of the rows I just ripped out. So, I will use the two dark skeins for the sleeves and hope it doesn't look too weird. At least it'll be symmetrical.
Maybe this will teach me to do alternating rows with different skeins when I use a hand-dyed yarn from now on. That's the way you're supposed to do it just because of the potential for problems like this, but I'm lazy and so tonight I paid the price.
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