The Trouble with Knitting...

I'm sure all you knitters out there know the importance of pattern choice and tension squares. A few months ago I purchased some of Spotlight's wool - it was going out on sale. It is a 4 ply, 75% wool, 25% polyester. In 100 gm balls: It is a variegated yarn in shades of grey through to black. I chose a plain jumper, checked the tension, and, as the tension was fine, started knitting the back. I finished knitting the back. And I did not like it. I did not like the shape, or the way the variations lay in weird (to my way of thinking) stripes. So I undid the back. As anything made in this wool would give me the weird stripes, I had to decide what to do. I decided to knit two balls together, as I thought this would eliminate the (weird) stripes. I chose a pattern, and knitted a tension square. The tension was wrong. I changed needles and knitted another tension square. The tension was still wrong. I changed needles and knitted another tension square. TH