Ah, Drat
I started this tiny project thinking, “it’s okay if I run out of yarn on the MDK kimono, I am going to need another skein to make the matching strawberry hat anyway.”
almost but not quite there…
don’t worry, it will be washed before gifting
I got to this point and stopped, putting it on a holder. But it kept nagging me to go get the extra yarn to finish it since I need to have it ready to gift in a week.
So I took a late lunch today and checked the local AC Moore. And they still have the yarn (my beloved TLC Cotton Plus — my favorite washable, inexpensive, durable, soft cotton-acrylic blend), but not this color (the appropriately named “red”).
Drat. I can order the skein I need from Joann’s and add 1 or 2 day shipping (at $7.50-20 additional for a $2.40 skein of yarn!), but I would rather pick it up locally.
For tonight, it’s back to yet-another baby knit — this seed stitch hooded jacket in Araucania Nature Cotton (thanks Knit Happens sale)!
few things make me as happy as this cottony textured square-ish fabric
And with 4 100g hanks of the nature cotton, I am fairly certain I am not going to run out of it (knock on wood)!
Double drat – I was just looking at that yarn at my Michaels today and I know for a fact they didn’t have any red. How easy would that have been! I’d have snatched it up for you in an instant, darn it!
Cutie sweaters! I just started a seed stitch baby sweater, but yours looks so much prettier in the handdyed yarn! Seed stitch is so smooshy, I keep pausing to smoosh it as I knit.
No! How frustrating!!!! Can they call and get some from another store?
[...] If you recall, I ran out of yarn on the MDK baby kimono I was making for a coworker. I drove around to a number of shops that carry TLC Cotton Plus, but no one had the red color. So I ripped back one side to make the red the same length and knit the rest in ecru. I hate how it looks, so I dropped it and decided maybe I just wouldn’t make this coworker anything. [...]