Silly question about yarn dye and gauge

Hello lovely knitters,

This may be a dumb question but, but what the heck, let’s just go for it.

Would two gauge swatches in the same yarn but different colors have different gauges? Does something about dying a purple vs a pink, for example, cause a difference in gauge swatches?

I’m swatching in 50/50 bamboo cotton and I want to swatch using a color I’m not using in this project. I know I can reclaim the yarn from the swatches, but I want to avoid the extra loose ends I’ll have to weave in if I do that.

Thanks for the loan of your brain cells. They are surely less fried than mine. 🤪

Posted Mar 30, 2026, 1:36 AM UTC

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