Newspaper yarn variations

Your newspaper yarn need not look the same throughout! Here are just a few suggestions that you can experiment with:


1. Experimenting with colour. 

Gather and sort newspaper pages by colour. Full page colour advertisements are the best option if bold, obvious colour is needed. Blue and black full colour advertisements appear to be the most common. Festive seasons like Christmas and Chinese New Year are great for finding lots of full colour adverts in red or pink. 

Stripes or patches of colours can be produced depending on how the newspaper strips are glued/twisted. 

In this example,

I glued all the blue, followed by black, white, and red strips together. The finished knitted object will have a stripped effect.

2. Newspaper widths/thicknesses.

For instance, by gluing thick and thin newspaper strips and twisting them, the finished knitted object can have an interesting texture.

3. Newspaper types.

There may be subtle differences in the thickness of the newspaper sheet or colour (Financial Times papers are peach pink!). Using newspapers of another language or country will also produce novel results. 

4. Use only a certain newspaper section 
For example, the Classifieds section of the newspaper tends to look the same throughout. Yarn made using only the Classifieds section will have a uniform look.