What do you do if you are short on yardage to finish a project?
This is the Pleiades pattern by Beth Cling. It is basically a scarf in a crescent shape. She describes it as a shallow, curved shawlette.
The pattern is written really well. Each technique was described thoroughly, a beginner with a little experience could follow it easily.
My only problem was yardage. I knowingly used a smaller needle size because that’s all I had, but I didn’t anticipate how short I would be. I can either bind off now and completely miss the 2×2 rib section, or I can add another color which might look really cool, or could make it look horrible…. What would you do?
Updated 2015:
My husband said to me one day, why don’t you just buy more yarn?? I hadn’t even thought of that because hand dyed yarn can be so different if they are from different dye lots (I learned that the hard way). But I decided to give it a try.
To the trained eye it is obvious, but to the other 99% of the population it is virtually undetectable. So, nearly a year later it is finished and I can enjoy this cozy frilly knit. There are progress photos available in my project page in Ravelry.
I highly recommend this knit and yarn, oh my gosh, the yarn was particularly great! This was the first time for me using Miss Babs yarn. I absolutely love it. If you haven’t used it, you must give it a try. The aptly named, Yummy 3-ply sock yarn, is so squishy, and the subtle color changes made this semi solid interesting the whole time.
Can you see where the color changed?
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