UGH! Out of yarn! WWYD?

[feminist~mama]

I'm making Toddle, and although the pattern clearly calls for 1 ball of yarn, I'm out of yarn. Even though I had more than a ball. I had 1.25 balls! Yet I'm at least 6 inches from finishing.

Grrr!

So now- what to do? I was making this in blue (300208 if you were wondering) and I have DB cashmerino in green and black. So I could do some sort of funky thing and start with another color.

I could cough up the cash and buy another ball- there's a person on Ravelry with a ball in Canada. Of course, I'd be paying twice what I did for the original ball with shipping and all.

Ugh. I'm more complaining here than anything else. I started this scarf thinking I'd use up what I had left from Mrs. Dashwood. The point was to use up extra yarn, not buy more! :

[feminist~mama]

I'm not good at doing "funky things". I'm probably going to buy another ball.

Sigh.

It is pretty with all it's twisty cables...

[mamasthree]

I think you could add another color, but you'd probably want to knit the same length that you already have with the blue--it would be 1/2 & 1/2 that way. If it would be too long, you could rip out some of the already knit scarf (gasp!).

If it were me, I'd throw the whole thing in a bag and stuff it in my closet, then proceed to forget about it for a year or two. But, that's just me .

[VikingKvinna]

I would rip it back to the halfway point, then add in another skein of a contrasting color and make it half-and-half.

OR I'd probably buy another skein of the yarn. Have you checked your LYSes/Ebay/yarnswap on yahoo?

[eepster]

I'd add in the new color, but I wouldn't just change randomly. I would knit as far as I could with the first color. I would then either bind off the live end to match the cast on end, or (better but harder) treat the cast on end like a provisional caston and undo it so I had live stitches at both ends. I would then pick up the new color at both ends of the scarf so it matched.

[feminist~mama]

Originally Posted by eepster

I'd add in the new color, but I wouldn't just change randomly. I would knit as far as I could with the first color. I would then either bind off the live end to match the cast on end, or (better but harder) treat the cast on end like a provisional caston and undo it so I had live stitches at both ends. I would then pick up the new color at both ends of the scarf so it matched.

I've thought that it would make it look better if I added some of the new color on both sides too. I've never undone a cast-on edge- I wonder if there's a video somewhere? :

[flapjack]

I'd cast on and knit the border in a different colour and then graft, personally. More work, bur I'm not great at reading cable charts backwards