So...my latest dilemma with the hourglass sweater is coming up short on yarn. The errata says that some knitters have come up one or two balls short among other pattern errors. Seeing that the sleeve alone would easily gobble up 2 skeins of the 40g/99yd yarn, I started to do some calculations...
- say I use 11 hanks/skeins, this would equal ~ 440g/1089yds (this amt seems short for a sweater with very long sleeves)
- 11 skeins at 50g, would be ~ 550g/1353yds (this yardage is more like it)
- 1353 - 1089yds = 264yds ~ 2.67 each of 40g balls
So it looks like I'll need another 3 balls at least...I called AS and they have the yarn! (apparently the UK hanks are in 50g quantities)
I've heard other people having this problem. Acorn is so great, they always seem to have extra yarn when I need it!
Posted by: Purly Whites | Friday, 29 July 2005 at 11:55 AM
Many thanks for your notice on the yarn. I did buy some extra... I hope it is extra enough! Your Hourglass looks so lovely so far. I love Cash Iroha.
Have a good one~
Posted by: Lolly | Monday, 01 August 2005 at 12:42 PM