@Anke @Satsuma colorway, I think

@varve @Satsuma I thought colorway was the name for the yarn. Like, one colorway one on style of multicolored yarn.

@Anke @Satsuma idk, I've always heard it used to refer to a combination of colours, that a given pattern would be available in different colorways.

@varve ah,, true, now that you mention I remember I heard it used like that about fabric. I was just stuck on yarn.
I think what @Satsuma meant was that because the same colour in one line often touches/overlaps with that same colour in the next line, the "print" of the yarn here creates pathways up and down the finished piece.

@varve @Anke yeah thats what i was trying to refer to! sometimes with variegated yarns the different bits of a particular color stay very disconnected from each other while other times they line up/are adjacent and those two types of variegation tend to have very different effects visually.