Tips & Tricks
Probably the hardest thing about working with gradient mini-sets is determining the order of the skeins. (WHY don’t dyers number them?!) The first thing to do is to swap the yarns in and out until you think the order is right. It feels a bit like you’re playing the cup game—you know, the one where you move the cups around and have to guess which one has the ball under it. Sometimes, it works to take a photo and convert it to black and white so you are forced to see just the tone. (Unfortunately, that trick doesn’t work all the time.)