Running Out

I realized when I was getting to the yoke of my striped cardigan that I would soon be running out of yarn.  Out of all three colors of the yarn.  Since I started this sweater without much planning, I cannot say that this was a huge surprise.  It was inconvenient, however, because I really did want to finish the sweater.  Since the brown yarn was commercially dyed, I hoped that the color would not be too different between dye lots and ordered a skein.  (Fortunately, I was right!)  The pink and orange yarns were more problematic, since they were hand dyed by indie dyers. I decided that the corrugated ribbing had to go.

 

Since I started knitting up from the ribbing, I couldn't just frog it.  Frogging knitting from the wrong direction is fiddly and No Fun.  So instead, I snipped the yarn at the top of the corrugated ribbing and started un-knitting it.  I captured the orange loops from the row above on a needle as I went.

 

This was also fiddly, but I had a row of nicely picked up stitches at the end, and also a button band that was easy to frog.

 

I carefully took out all the pink and orange yarn, washed it, and knitted it into the yoke.  I didn't have quite enough to finish the entire yoke, but I'm OK with having a larger stripe of brown at the top.  I redid the ribbing at the bottom in solid brown, with a twisted 1x1 rib.

 

And now the sweater is ready for steeking! 

Comments

[Krysta]

You are a ninja! Can't wait to see the finished project.

[grumperina]

Very clever solution! Glad you rescued enough yarn to finish the sweater :).

[Jody]

This looks great! I think I like the brown ribbing at the bottom more than the corrugated - it gives your eyes a place to rest with all those stripes.

[Walden]

Very nifty, I have to say, not sure I would have had the nerve to do that. It looks great so far! Good luck with the steeking.

[Brenda]

Ingenious! I love the color combination.