Damnit. I am short one whole sleeve. I say this with much anger and surprise when I should be flogging myself for my lapse in basic arithmetic.
Going into this I already knew I was short 3 skeins, and thought no problem, I'll get that yardage back by not cabling the back. 3 skeins did not sound like a lot to my little brain, but do the math and 3 skeins of merino chunky equals....(calculating)...164 yards which equals nearly 500 feet of yarn I don't have, and therefore I was clearly stupid to think I could get that back by simply not cabling a panel.
Not wanting to order online and wait wait wait, I called every yarn store nearby to see if they had any merino chunky dyelot #18 in stock and only one store did, but being busy with a customer she didn't actually check it in person. Tomorrow I'll break from work to walk to Newbury Yarns and hope she's not a dirty liar. I'm so close to finishing!
3-needle bind-off, so beautiful in the sun.
The good news is: I left the shoulder stitches live so I could try the 3-needle bind-off. A little clunky with such large needles, but it turned out brilliant. Now the front and back panels are joined at the shoulders. Anything to cut seaming down.
But there's enough yarn for the turtleneck. If you look to the left, you will see a ghastly PSSO gone horribly awry.The pass-over stitch is way loose. Meant to do an SSK but forgot.(Now that I've told you to look closely, try not to next time.)
In the meantime I'm going to finish up the turtleneck.
Speaking of. The instructions for this pattern is in really garbly English. For example, the instructions for the neck says:
Pick up around neck edge with circular needles the 23 sts. off each holder = 76 sts.
Er...There are 12 sts on front holder and 18 on back holder, not 23. The 23 they're referring to is the number to pick up on each neck edge.23+23+12+18 = 76.
Just thinking now, I could have just gone and cabled the back afterall. Not cabling it really only saved me at most half a skein of yardage. And maybe it wouldn't have looked too busy...Ah, always second-guessing. Next time.
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