Raves First. I got my hair cut today. Hip Hip Hooray! The previous cut was attractive, I had agreed to try something different, and I got TONS of compliments, but every time I looked in the mirror or saw a photo of myself I did not recognize the person looking back at me. It was very discomforting. As Alfie performed his magic with the scissors, I began to see a familiar face looking back from the mirror. Self Restored!!
Rants:
I finished the first sleeve of Posh. I am not sure I have enough yarn for the second sleeve, although it admittedly will be very close:
That is all the remaining yarn, 2 whole balls and 2 partials. I started this sleeve with a partial ball (see the ends) then ran out of the next two full balls (sweater is knitted with yarn held double) just before the sleeve cap shaping. I think the ball that is left is bigger than the partial ball I started with, but I am not sure that I have enough to finish a whole sleeve. I will have to seam the shoulders and baste the existing sleeve into the sweater to be sure it fits. Perhaps it is too big, which does sometimes happen as my arms are short, and it is always hard to tell how the sleeve will sit in the shoulder and how the yarn will hang before I knit. This is why I never do sleeves first.
I almost hope the sleeve IS too big, then I will probably have enough yarn to manage. Holding it up against my arm however, unattached, I am not convinced.
The RANT is because I am not convinced this is completely my fault. Oh I do mess up -- look what happened with Tesla, which I still haven't started by the way -- I got too wrapped up in Posh. But in this case I ordered the yarn from one of my (once??) favorite yarn stores, which will remain NAMELESS and they have this summer shorted yarn on a bunch of sweaters. When this yarn arrived, I had not yet had the yarn shorting problem and I admittedly did not count the skeins. I noted that Posh was not the yarn listed in the Vogue Pattern Magazine and I hadn't yet checked the corrections and realized that this was the proper yarn. I assumed the number of skeins was correct for the sweater I ordered. I ordered the large, not because I need the large in width, but because I needed to lengthen the sweater and that always takes a surprising amount of extra yarn. After checking the Vogue Knitting corrections list, I realize that I did not receive the yarn for the large sweater, which actually would have been more than enough. I would have had extra, but that was my choice to make and not the decision of the person selling me the yarn.
If I had checked this earlier, I might have caught the problem. So, no matter what I must accept some of the blame.
Nonetheless, I am predisposed to being pissed at NAMELESS yarn shop right now because, although I have ordered from them for many many years, I have, since POSH arrived, received packages of yarns for 5 other sweaters each of which was missing 1 to 3 skeins of yarn. They weren't consistent, it was not like the shipped the kit for the wrong size. Yarns were just missing. I was charged for the complete kit, but I did not receive it. I would open that cute little box with the polka-dot ribbon (hint hint) all excited, only to be quickly disappointed. Boo Hoo. Of course, I called promptly. The last order (4 fall Anny Blatt Sweaters) came almost two weeks ago (13 days) and I haven't received the missing yarns yet. This reminds me that I will have to call again.
Should I just order another skein or wait and see? Stacy Charles yarns don't tend to stay in production long. Depending on how popular this was, it may be hard to find two more skeins.
I hate having a sweater I can't finish. I hate having a stack of projects that can't be started because they are waiting for yarn to arrive.