I eliminated one of the strands and joined the next colour leaving me with a mix of the last colour and new colour. I started with two strands of the same colour and did one full Catherine Wheel which is two rows. For me, it’s my emotional connective blanket and has a dear place in my heart. I still have this afghan today and is really popular in the shows when I bring it for display.
It was my therapy afghan making at the time. Between you and I, I did this afghan in the transition of separating from my wife and beginning a new life after coming out of the closet. Over the years, I have doubled up my yarn and I realized back in 2001 when the Vibrant Catherine Stitch Wheel Afghan was made that I could double up my yarn but be strategic about my colour transitions. I wish I had a picture of my afghan that I did with this technique, I was pretty proud of it. So I decided on my own whim to try and double up my yarn when using to make my afghans heavier. I was a really skinny kid and got cold fast here in Ontario, Canada. So I asked the family to see if they had leftover yarn that I could use to make my afghan. When I was a teenager, I couldn’t afford yarn. That is a personal choice and is completely up to you. With multiple yarn strands, the stitches can appear bigger and not as refined in appearance. Doubling or adding more yarn doesn’t ensure the project will look the same in the end.Triple Strands will use 3 times more yarn and so on. Afghans in double-strand will use twice as much yarn. You will go through more yarn to compensate for using multiple strands.It will make the project bigger because the yarn gauge has been changed by more strands being added.It will make the project heavier in weight.
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