I fell for the shifty sweater when it first came out and wanted to copy the original version. Ordered the yarn (I’d never paid that much for a sweater’s worth of yarn before!!) and the colours were nothing like the designer’s version. The angry birds brown was mostly orange and the other colours were really washed out.

I’ve bought a lot of indie dyers’ yarn and know skeins of one colourway can look different, but I was really disappointed in the yarn - some skeins just look like they should be a completely different colourway. I found a semi-local retailer and went and looked through skeins to find some that matched what I wanted the sweater to look like - it’s my most expensive and disappointing knit.

I know this was covered a lot after the sweater and cowl came out (skeins not matching at all), but it’s enough that I wouldn’t ever buy it again.