Here I am, chugging along on the Humdrum sweater. I finished the back last night and cast on for the first sleeve. I had the normal concern and general overall fear of NOT HAVING ENOUGH YARN (explains the massive stash somewhat). The pattern calls for 800 yards and I had 820 in my 10 skeins of the Chunky AL. Should technically be enough, but…
Except I used over 3 skeins for just the back. The generic yardage formula is that the back and fronts use 2/3 of the total yarn with the sleeves utilizing the remaining third. This is a pretty rough formula, but it is generally close. With the back taking 3 and a smidge, and the front being a repeat of the back, the body would take 6 and 2 smidges. I’d have to do the sleeves using less than 1/3 of the remaining yarn.
This explains casting on for a sleeve before finishing the body. If I could eek out the back and a sleeve using half the yardage (forgetting entirely the turtleneck), I could get by. You know where this is going…
This morning on the train, it became apparent to me that the sleeve was in no way going to be done with less than 1.5 skeins of yarn. No way. No how. I need more. Thank goodness for the clearly stated exception to KFYS2007 ( 2.c. If we are knitting
something and run out of yarn, we may purchase enough to complete the project.) as I really need to exercise that option.
Allowed to and being able to are completely different animals. I bought the yarn off a Webs sale a while ago. I sent an email to them this morning querying whether they had any more in the same dye lot. No luck. They’re completely out of 004 Night Sky entirely.
Not to be deterred by that, I let Google do my shopping and starting hitting online presences that advertised Chunky AL in 004 Night Sky in stock. After sending an email to the first one, I made a call to the second. With baited breath, I waited as the nice gentleman on the phone read out the dye lot number of the yarn he had. My heart skipped a beat as he read the numbers I wanted to hear! Can you believe they had the right lot?! I can’t. Personal Threads has come to my rescue. They are shipping out my skeins. Today.
Whew. I should buy a lottery ticket.
Craft on!
3 responses so far ↓
1 Eva // Feb 1, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Wow that sure is being lucky!!! Let me know if you win the jackpot LOL.
Cheers Eva – who’s still trying to donate money to the hopping Monkeys…
2 Cassie // Feb 1, 2007 at 3:58 pm
That really does sound almost incredible. I’m so glad for you – maybe there’s something to be said for knitting with the stash before it ages *too* much?
3 Lizzy B // Feb 1, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Isn’t the internet an amazing thing? If it weren’t for the internet you would probably have run out of yarn unable to find the matching dyelot and your sweater would have stay a UFO forever. Amazing thing this community the world has built and sustained…