And so the knitter listened to the yarn and obediently began knitting socks ... the pretty ball of yarn was in fact afflicted with the Pooling Curse, and was incapable of telling the truth ...

My own worst (recent) experience with pooling happened with a lovely seamless sweater I knit myself out of an autumnal-colored yarn that had shades of nutmeg, chocolate brown, wine and forest green.

Typically, color pooling can be fiber lover’s worst ... I personally steer clear of working this type of yarn in large sections of knitting. Weaving, on the other hand, is the perfect vehicle ...

Annie Webber can usually track the popularity of knitting and crochet by the number of college kids and young adults who pay a visit to her shop, Mind’s Eye Yarns in Cambridge. And lately ...