Almost Out

Despite the large bins I have full of yarn I have found this past weekend that I am almost out of yarn.

Hard to believe isn't it?

I have decided to make a sweater this summer and I ordered the yarn for it toward the end of last week. I had finished up all of my major projects so I decided to work on my bag for D.C. that I had set aside. The reason it had been set aside was that I knew it was too small and didn't want to work on it any more, but I also didn't want to do a guage swatch and rip it out and start over again.

Last friday I took the plunge. I knit up a proper swatch and discovered that to get gauge I needed to hold the yarn double. At this point I was volunteering with my mom at the library but, it being memorial day weekend and all, it was really slow. So I pulled the bag out of my bag and I started to frog it. This was the biggest thing I had ever frogged, and it was really fun. My mom was shocked at how much work I was simply pulling out stitch by stitch and row by row. It kinda looks like my hair doesn't it?

Anyway, the next problem I had was that the base of this bag the yarn is worked double so I had one section of yarn that I needed to separate from the other part. I got started that night but had to go to a graduation party before I could really make any headway. The party was great, but I didn't get home till almost 2am that night. I stayed up till 3am trying to separate this yarn which was going to be a painstakingly slow process.

Finally I admitted defeat for the time being when I couldn't keep my eyes focoused on the flowing yarn in front of me. The next day was our memorial day party and I had to spend the morning cleaning, but I had just enough time to get my yarn untangled wound into a hank and washed so that it could dry for the rest of the afternoon. By the time the party was offically over a little past 10pm I went to check on my yarn and found it was still rather wet at the bottom. I really wanted to cast this back on the next day so I got a small portable fan and laid the yarn on it so it would dry faster. An hour later I deemed it close enough and got down to the business of winding it up.

Now because I had decided to use the yarn double and the pattern called for using the yarn double for the base I was going to knit it with the yarn held quadruple. I had 2 skeins of yarn that were already in use and I tried to get close enough to halving of each of those skeins so I could just use those to begin with and I hoped that it would be enough for the base. Finally after another late night it was all wound up and ready to go.

I cast on the next morning at church and in that one day knit up more than the yarn I had previously used and was down to one skein left.

I needed to buy more yarn. My sweater yarn hadn't come in yet and if I ran out of yarn for this project before it got here I didn't know what I was going to do because I don't want to have too many projects going on at once (crazy, huh?)

Finally today all of my yarn was shipped and should arrive in a couple of days. Hopefully I won't run out of yarn after all.

Stay tuned to find out about my very first sweater!!

"Have fun storming the castle!"