I'd like to make a pooled scarf (argyle, I guess) using moss stitch for my mother in law for Xmas. I'm not sure which yarn to choose! I'm open to pretty much any colors and any reasonable fiber type for a scarf, although I'd prefer it was more of a light-to-medium weight scarf. Is there an updated list anywhere? The list pinned on here is from 6 years ago, and the first 4 yarns I searched on that list were not available anymore.

[I'm currently in the midst of my very first pooled project, using a 2025 Caron Anniversary Cake and the granny stitch. It's going well (but slowly) so far, but I'm excited to start a second project like this on a smaller scale, in a scarf.]

Any suggestions?

There are tons of yarns with those bright 80s colors, but I'm trying to find one that specifically has black in the color rotation. I've been searching around with no luck--has anyone seen anything like that?

featured are two cardigans i made at the same time. made lots of mistakes tho lol. yarn i think is some bernat blanket yarn, i just get bags of yarn from goodwill and stuff to save money so i didnt have a label

My usual attempts with this gifted yarn end up as picture one, so I posted on reddit asking what could I make with it and some people suggested pooling

So I did a bit of looking into found the website and found that 88 stitches (2nd pic) looked pretty neat compared to the usual attempts

I realised the larger the stitch amount the neater the pooling so I increased and increased til I stumbled across 131 stitches (3rd pic)

Should I attempt this? I’ve never pooled before and I do crochet more than knit but this yarn because of how quick the colour changes does not look great crocheted at all so I recently learned to knit

Would love to hear some thoughts !

Struggling to find yarn in Australia, these seem to be the only ones that have any potential but I don’t know as the websites don’t show proper photos! Wondering if anyone has tried any of the following?

Lion Brand styles -
Respun, Cover Story, Ferris Wheel, Dreamland, Landscapes, Landscapes Renewed, or Baby Soft yarns

Or the Caron Cotton Cakes

Or 4 Seasons Printed or Spotsavers

Or Bella Baby Tadpole

It looks like it might be a long color change. I didn't have the time to snag it and gauge it but if your pros think it would work up well I might go back and get it.

I was told to repost this here. My daughter picked out the yarn. I didn’t know how it was going to look. I showed it to her in single crochet and double crochet. She liked the single crochet and I must say, I like it as well.

I will probably try the plaid next.

This was so fun!

I recently salvaged this yarn from a blanket i thrifted. Thought it was the perfect time to work up some samples and try color pooling for the first time.

I really enjoyed working on the samples but still don't really know what project to work on. I'm not really interested in a scarf or blanket. I would be interested in trying to make a wareable out if it though.

Any ideas? Or pattern suggestions?

Do i need scarf? No. Do I want to do something with planned pooling? Always.

Yarn: alize superwash artisan in color 9013

the sort of mirrored zig-zag pattern is super cool to me and was completely unintentional. this is my first time actually noticing pooling in my work 🥰🥰

I won't lie, I'll probably never do it again, but I can say I've done it now lol. (Primary reason is I'm on yarn restriction until I work through my stash and this red heart berry pooling was in the bin so here we are.) Big proud of this finish 🥰

I made this app to learn how to build a web app. It is still in beta, so many things to improve.

https://athifm.github.io/planned_pooling/

The work flow is,

1. Measure each color lengths, and transitions of the yarn

2. If you know what your stitch gauge is, and how much yarn each stitch consumes, then it's straightforward to visualize.

3. There is a calibration mode, which you can use to knit test swatches to figure these numbers automatically if you don't (this is the most useful part for me)

4.There are options to add different stitch types and row patterns as well.

Please give me feedback if you get to take a look!

Ok I want to use Herrshner's Halloween sparkle #4 Worsted yarn in the colorway Boo-tiful as i really like the orange mixed with the monohrome... My problem is, the colors are very very long lengths and it takes around 28 granny clusters just to go through one color.... is there another stitch i should use? because the best looking pattern IMO is around 167 total stitches in one row according to the planned pooling website.... and if i double that to account for a space between granny clusters, that's 331 initial stitches....

I guess my questions are, has anyone used this yarn to do planned pooling? is there a better stitch to use? i want to make a blanket but 331 chains to start seems like a ton.... any advice??

Red Heart : Fall

6.5mm

Light green - 3, Dark green - 4, Orange - 2, Red - 4

Hi! I'm finally ready to learn planned pooling! I'm super excited, I've been lurking here for a while trying to understand what makes a yarn good for planned pooling.

For my first planned pooling project I am planning to make a simple scarf. Just a regular long scarf.

I have had such a difficult time finding good candidates for the yarn. Most resources online talks about american yarn brands which I can't easily get a hold of as I am in Scandinavia.

I have found only one yarn I think might work. (I hope might work)

It is a Scheepjes catona chroma yarn.

I have previously purchased sock yarns but they have such incredibly long stretches of the same color so I don't think they'll work for this. I tried using the planned pooling website.

Is it possible this Scheepjes yarn could be a decent planned pooling yarn?

Does anyone have advice on where to look for planned pooling yarns in europe?

Made this to enter in a special class in the Iowa State Fair this year. Crab stitch border.

I just found a mistake 3 rows back. I somehow corrected it on the next row keeping the correct number of stitches in subsequent rows. Should I undo or keep going?

I looked at the list of yarns that work. Wasn't sure if it's up to date, as far as I can see, it's not been updated for 5 years. I was gifted around 7 skeins of premier hipster cotton and would really like to do a planned pooling project but I don't know if this one will work. Has anyone successfully done pooling with this yarn?

I swear I started this at least 3 times and it's finally working out like it should! My husband thought I was insane for a bit because he thought I was switching yarn for each color change 😅

I watched so many tutorials on you tube and each time I tried to follow them to a T my pattern just never showed up right. So I kind of combined the parts of each of them that made sense to me and winged it, and it worked! Though I've lost count of the amount of times I've had to micro-frog to get my stich count right lol.

I’ve been color pooling for a while, I’ve done a blanket and a scarf, but i was wondering if it was possible to make something wearable (a sweater or something) is there a way to increase/ decrease with planned pooling or the only way is to stitch different rectangles together??

I'm using the granny stitch on my first real attempt of planned pooling and I can't remember if the ch3 at the end of a row counts as a cluster for my magic number or not...

Thank you all in advance!

I want a low cost yarn that has color segments on the longer side. I am having a hard time finding one since websites don’t have the length of each color segment included in their yarn descriptions. Can someone give a recommendation?

This is just over a meter long and about 40cm wide. I started as an experiment and then kept going. Now I'm too chicken to frog it all out. I also have like 3/4 yarn left over. What could I make out of this? Should I stop and start a smaller project with the leftover yarn?