April 15, 2005
The end of the Mohair Royal
One of the mohair skeins has run out, and the legwarmers are not done! argh.
The tag on the Lana Gatto Mohair Royal states that it has 235 yards*. By the end of the first legwarmer, I knew that barring some sort of real miscalculation on the part of The Lana Gatto Yarn Manufacturing Company or rift in the mohair yardage-per-ounce continuum, it would run out. Yet I kept knitting. I thought, hey, its mohair, do they REALLY know the yardage on this? Its so skinny and light, they must add extra. That 235 number is just an estimate, right? Nope. It was pretty much dead on. Those mohair manufacturers, they know what they're talking about.
So here I am, one legwarmer of 20.5" and one legwarmer of 13".
They way I see it, there are a couple options.
1. Buy more yarn. No no no, I do not want to buy more yarn. It would be okay if I actually liked it. But its kinda cheap feeling. There would be extra, and its not suited to a scarf. Perhaps some project would arise someday for which this mohair would be perfect, but there is enough yarn under my bed. No more.
2. Keep going without this yarn. It wouldn't change the gauge. Alas, the now-extinct mohair provides essential color. The top 7 inches of one legwarmer would be a visibly different shade. Can't do this. nope.
3. Steal yarn from the first legwarmer. Undo the bind-off edge on the first legwarmer and use that yarn to keep knitting the second. Keep undo-ing the first and knitting the second until they reach an equal length, somewhere around 16 inches. Now this is an idea.
Option 3 it is. The second legwarmer will cannibalize the first. This should be fun.
Comments (10)
Good call on option 3. No one wants leftovers of a yarn they don't like. Look forward to seeing your yarn-eating legwarmers when finished. :)
Back to 'eyelets-r-us' - I think the Rebecca approach to eyelets is much easier, since it tells you where to start the motifs. Not to mention the larger gauge. I will finish Lucky, it's just a question of when... Cheers, Dana
Posted by Dana | April 15, 2005 9:15 AM
Posted on April 15, 2005 09:15
Option 3 is good... I hate it when that happens... I ran out of yarn for my princess snowball cat bed I made last fall and ended up using something similar I had in my stash.. You can't really tell and its fine because its only a cat bed!
Glad you liked my lace scarf. You will need two skeins of Koigu Painter's to make it through. I am just about through one skein and have about half the scarf done, so you will probably use most of the 2 skeins with little leftover.
Posted by Dani | April 15, 2005 10:07 AM
Posted on April 15, 2005 10:07
What a bummer, but it sounds like you've come up with a workable solution. Good luck with the cannibalization and I can't wait to see the finished product.
Posted by Stephanie | April 15, 2005 10:59 AM
Posted on April 15, 2005 10:59
I would have chosen option 3 too. It really sucks when something like this happens.
Posted by Agnes | April 15, 2005 11:08 AM
Posted on April 15, 2005 11:08
Glad you found a way to make it work. Do you think 16" legwarmers will be long enough? I guess you could always add an equal amount of non-mohair to each legwarmer later if you didn't think so. Then it would look totally intentional. I still love love love the colors you chose!
Posted by Karma | April 15, 2005 11:55 AM
Posted on April 15, 2005 11:55
great solution!
Posted by froggy | April 15, 2005 1:12 PM
Posted on April 15, 2005 13:12
That is a total bummer! I hate it when that happens. I think you've come up with a good solution and I hope it works out. I hope you photograph the whole process and post about how it goes.
Posted by Purly Whites | April 15, 2005 1:47 PM
Posted on April 15, 2005 13:47
I love the green! What size needles are you using?
Posted by dcknits | April 15, 2005 3:02 PM
Posted on April 15, 2005 15:02
Take 2-
Duh, should have scrolled down :)
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I love the green! What size needles are you using?
Posted by dcknits | April 15, 2005 3:05 PM
Posted on April 15, 2005 15:05
Option 3 sounds great. I'm making the legwarmers from Weekend Knitting and those are 17" so 16" will be totally fine.
Posted by Marcela | April 15, 2005 8:59 PM
Posted on April 15, 2005 20:59