For the pretty ball of yarn was in fact afflicted with the Pooling Curse, and was incapable of telling the truth, or of looking anything but wretched when it was knitted up.

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 nightmare. Color pooling is when a multi-colored yarn is dyed in such a way that when it is worked, it creates “pools” of color, which ...