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celticdragonfly) wrote2007-05-13 10:01 pm
celticdragonfly) wrote2007-05-13 10:01 pm
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Yardage frustration
Last night's yardage shortage on the bear sweater is apparently NOT the only case of it I get this weekend.
Today I went back to work on the tank top I'm doing for Maggie.
Now, I've carefully read and reread the directions. For the size I'm making her, it says I should need one skein each of the main color and contrasting color.
I had a mostly-full skein of the pink tea rose left over from her Crumpets dress, for the main color, and another untouched skein I could have gotten into if I needed it - but I seem to have had just enough from the partial skein.
I had an untouched full skein of "cotton ball" white that had been given to me that I'm using as the contrasting color. I am doing the ruffle in the round, both sides at once. I should be doing 3" of it, then the reduction that makes it a ruffle, then attaching it to the top of the tank, doing a few more rounds, and doing the shoulder straps, all in that contrasting color.
I've run out at about 2.5". Grrrr.
I do know one yarn store in town that carries that kind of yarn. I can call them and see if they have that color, although of course it's almost certainly not going to be the same dye lot if they do. And I can't call them until Tuesday, as all the yarn shops are closed tomorrow.
Bleagh.
Today I went back to work on the tank top I'm doing for Maggie.
Now, I've carefully read and reread the directions. For the size I'm making her, it says I should need one skein each of the main color and contrasting color.
I had a mostly-full skein of the pink tea rose left over from her Crumpets dress, for the main color, and another untouched skein I could have gotten into if I needed it - but I seem to have had just enough from the partial skein.
I had an untouched full skein of "cotton ball" white that had been given to me that I'm using as the contrasting color. I am doing the ruffle in the round, both sides at once. I should be doing 3" of it, then the reduction that makes it a ruffle, then attaching it to the top of the tank, doing a few more rounds, and doing the shoulder straps, all in that contrasting color.
I've run out at about 2.5". Grrrr.
I do know one yarn store in town that carries that kind of yarn. I can call them and see if they have that color, although of course it's almost certainly not going to be the same dye lot if they do. And I can't call them until Tuesday, as all the yarn shops are closed tomorrow.
Bleagh.