Know When to Fold ‘Em

I counted up all the stitches on the needles on my Nordnordwest and there were 377 stitches remaining. Then I did the knitting to consume 5 stitches and that took 2 grams of yarn. Dividing 372 by 5, and multiplying that by 2 means I needed about 149 grams of yarn, not counting the extra stitches that would have to be done at the corners/points. I only had 108 grams so it wasn’t going to work.I thought about ripping back and taking out one repeat, which would have given me enough yarn but I wasn’t real happy with the border yarn being so much darker. It is obvious.

Also, the directions suggested doing a yarnover before and after the spine of the corner/points. I did that but with my knitting being loose already, it was way too loose.

The instructions said it may look loose but it would block out. I think mine was too lose. Also, I don’t know why I used a 3.5 mm needle. Many people who used fingering weight used 3.0. With my knitting being loose anyway, a 3.25 mm is the largest I should have used and I may go down to a 3.0 mm for the next one.

So . . it was bag to the Wollmeise yarn tub.

I don’t have three skeins of any of my Wollmeise but I can use two skeins of Paul and another skein of something else . . green or . . 

. . brown?

I like the green better, plus the Paul is Twin, the green is Twin and the brown is Pure. Twin is wool/nylon and Pure is 100% wool. My preference for this project is 100% wool but I just don’t have the yarn to make it work and I’m not buying yarn.

Wound and ready!