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Posted by YW on November 2, 2008, 2:16 pm
I was making a cardigan for my daughter. All is done except button/
buttonhole band (one piece around the neck) and I'm out of yarn!
It was a bag of yarn from ebay, so no way I can find this exactly
thing even partial skein (or is there hope?). My calculation was tight
but optimistic, too optimistic...
Somehow I lost track of number of skeins in the middle because we were
moving. Now I turned over all the boxed yarn again and again. Seems
like it WAS the last skein.
What are the suggestions please?
It's made in one color, cuffs, bottom and band should be done in 1x1
rib knit.
So far I came up with two possibilities:
1.I may add something completely different for the band and then do
some simple embroidery thread along the rib knits. Hmmm... will
probably look like I ran out of yarn at the end...
2. I may cut yarn somewhere at the end of the cuffs/bottom rib knit,
pull out yarn from couple of rows of each, making them shorter, graft
what's left and use pulled out yarn to finish the band. That leaves me
with single color and same yarn all over, although band will be made
with knots/joins (may be not the best place to join yarn a few
times...), and technically challenging.
Any other ideas????
Yulia on the edge of despair...
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Posted by Cheryl on November 2, 2008, 2:28 pm
I am not a knitter.. and so I may not have a good idea at all.. but if it is
long sleeved.. could you make it short sleeved and have enough yarn to
finish the project? Or even make it 3/4 sleeves?
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~ Cheryl
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>I was making a cardigan for my daughter. All is done except button/
> buttonhole band (one piece around the neck) and I'm out of yarn!
> It was a bag of yarn from ebay, so no way I can find this exactly
> thing even partial skein (or is there hope?). My calculation was tight
> but optimistic, too optimistic...
> Somehow I lost track of number of skeins in the middle because we were
> moving. Now I turned over all the boxed yarn again and again. Seems
> like it WAS the last skein.
> What are the suggestions please?
> It's made in one color, cuffs, bottom and band should be done in 1x1
> rib knit.
> So far I came up with two possibilities:
> 1.I may add something completely different for the band and then do
> some simple embroidery thread along the rib knits. Hmmm... will
> probably look like I ran out of yarn at the end...
> 2. I may cut yarn somewhere at the end of the cuffs/bottom rib knit,
> pull out yarn from couple of rows of each, making them shorter, graft
> what's left and use pulled out yarn to finish the band. That leaves me
> with single color and same yarn all over, although band will be made
> with knots/joins (may be not the best place to join yarn a few
> times...), and technically challenging.
> Any other ideas????
> Yulia on the edge of despair...
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Posted by YW on November 2, 2008, 3:39 pm
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> I am not a knitter.. and so I may not have a good idea at all.. but if it=
is
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> long sleeved.. could you make it short sleeved and have enough yarn to
> finish the project? Or even make it 3/4 sleeves?
> --
Thanks Cheryl,
it is 3/4 sleeve and it doesn't make sense to make sleeves shorter:
it's supposed to be warm cardigan....
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Posted by Olwyn Mary on November 2, 2008, 5:03 pm
YW wrote:
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> it is 3/4 sleeve and it doesn't make sense to make sleeves shorter:
> it's supposed to be warm cardigan....
Pull out cuffs and make contrast collar (button band)and cuffs.
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
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Posted by Lucille on November 2, 2008, 5:24 pm
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> YW wrote:
>> it is 3/4 sleeve and it doesn't make sense to make sleeves shorter:
>> it's supposed to be warm cardigan....
> Pull out cuffs and make contrast collar (button band)and cuffs.
> Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
Depending on the style, if it's plain I would probably buy a matching tweedy
yarn and do the cuffs, bottom band and button band in the tweed. Then you
could make patches for the elbows and pockets in the tweed to pull it all
together. You could even add a collar in the tweed.
Ask me how I know that works? I'm sure you can figure out that I've had the
same problem in the past and that's how I solved it.
Lucille
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> buttonhole band (one piece around the neck) and I'm out of yarn!
> It was a bag of yarn from ebay, so no way I can find this exactly
> thing even partial skein (or is there hope?). My calculation was tight
> but optimistic, too optimistic...
> Somehow I lost track of number of skeins in the middle because we were
> moving. Now I turned over all the boxed yarn again and again. Seems
> like it WAS the last skein.
> What are the suggestions please?
> It's made in one color, cuffs, bottom and band should be done in 1x1
> rib knit.
> So far I came up with two possibilities:
> 1.I may add something completely different for the band and then do
> some simple embroidery thread along the rib knits. Hmmm... will
> probably look like I ran out of yarn at the end...
> 2. I may cut yarn somewhere at the end of the cuffs/bottom rib knit,
> pull out yarn from couple of rows of each, making them shorter, graft
> what's left and use pulled out yarn to finish the band. That leaves me
> with single color and same yarn all over, although band will be made
> with knots/joins (may be not the best place to join yarn a few
> times...), and technically challenging.
> Any other ideas????
> Yulia on the edge of despair...