On the needles

Progress on my sweater, the weather must be cold and snowy and windy,  I want to get it done so I can wear it! Its hand dyed yarn and you can see how each skein was a little bit different.  They looked to be very uniform in the skeins and even more uniform when I wound them into balls............. but ....... the second ball was a warmer gray with some very light gray segments, the third had less gray between color changes at the beginning of the ball, the 4th was most like the first.  What will happen with the sleeves?  Have you ever wondered how they hand dye some of these yarns, is it spread on huge tables and spattered with dye, is each skein done individually, how many miles of yarn do they do at a time or in a run?  A mile of yarn figures out to 8 balls of 220 yard balls.  And they do it without getting tangled.  Happy knitting in 2020.  --Ann--