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This tutorial demonstrates how to make your very own Rainbow Ball for the Rainbowret Hat pattern. Creating the Rainbow Ball requires you to join wool and wool blend yarns with the spit splicing method.

2) To start your Rainbow Ball, you’ll want to cut lengths of yarn into approximate lengths of 1.35 [1.49, 1.62, 1.75, 1.89, 2.02] metre or 1.47 [1.63, 1.77, 1.92, 2.07, 2.2] yards – each length is the approximate length needed to work one round of the Rainbowret pattern – differences in gauge or fibre type or yarn weight would require different lengths.

As noted above, these lengths are approximate and were calculated on the average length per weight unit of the DK yarns used in the sample. Any variation in gauge or yarn weight could result in a different yardage, I’m afraid!

That said, it’s super easier to add in extra yarn should you find yourself running out – simply add another length of the next colour in the sequence as you go. In fact, you may find it easier to add the lengths as you go, rather than joining them all in one go at the beginning.

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