Knitting updatiness

[ysobel]

I am working on a shawlette constructed side-to-side ... which means, basically, that I am creating an isosceles triangle by starting with a small number of stitches, increasing on one side every other row until I'm halfway done, then decreasing (same side, same rate) until I'm down to a small number of stitches again.

The "until halfway done" bit is especially fun. It generally translates to "half the desired length, or half of the yarn, whichever is first". If you have more than enough yarn, or if you are planning on using two balls of yarn (same theory as for toe-up socks; go until you run out of one ball of yarn, then the other one will be the same length), it's fine. Otherwise, it's, er, interesting.

This type of project tends to have several distinct stages:

1) Cast-on. Yay for new things!
2) Wow, the rows are just flying, this will be done in no time at all!
3) Okay, I'm fairly comfortable with the pattern and how it works...
4) Gosh these rows are taking forever.
5) I wonder if I'm halfway there yet.
6) I think this is about halfway.
7) Gosh these rows are taking forever.
8) Ack I think I used more than half of my yarn what if I run out D:
9) Still taking forever.
10) Hm I don't think I went far enough I will probably have lots left over D:
(repeat 7-10 ad nauseum)
11) Ooh hey, bind-off. Yay for finished projects!

I am on stage 10 at this point. Yarn is a tricky thing, it is.

(But once I get this done I have Plans! I am going to do Althea* with this yarn (the brownbluegreen one) and it is going to be Awesome.)

* nts: [Althea](pattern) will not work on DW. *headdesk*

Comments

[afuna]

Argh, I hear you on that; I run into issues with estimating yarn near the end of a project too, and have several times ended up with projects that are too small, with plenty of yarn to spare ;_;

[ysobel]

The most annoying thing is that this is being done on commission (she provided the yarn and pattern, I provided the knitting funz), so it's not like I can just say "eh, I like it that length even if it's a bit short".

But. Yes.

Yarn is tricksy.