And Four Hours Later

The Zauberball is a really great yarn -- very subtle color shifts like Noro but much softer. Those are the plusses. The minuses are that there are knots in the yarn and the yarn is spliced together with no real care for continuing the color shift. So as I found out, even if you unwind the entire ball to figure out the progression of the shifts (see my little piece of scrap paper below: dark blue-purple-magenta-red-orange-yellow-orange-red-magenta-purple-dark blue), depending on how the yarn is spliced, you might end up with a good part of the skein that merely repeats what you already have rather than continues the progression at the beginning or the end.

So, unwinding:


More unwinding:


And more:
Where I ended splicing, at the orange:

And four hours later (seriously):


Two really nice balls of yarn. One starting with the yellow inside, the other with the purple inside. I'm making birthday socks for my mom (more on that in a later post). She's crazy so she'll love them even more because they won't match. But I can see how others have gotten really pissed about this yarn. Once you get knitting, it's great to work with. But it's a real pain up to then.