Wednesdays Are UFO and Dog Days
If ever a project could almost be expected to crash and burn (or burn and crash…or melt and crash) it would be something named after Icarus, the boy with wax wings, who flew too close to the sun.
Which is just my roundabout way of saying that — in the past week — I had a problem with my Icarus Shawl and I was afraid the whole thing would come crashing to a halt.
The problem is in plain sight in this picture.
It’s that ball of yarn. It’s the last of five, and it’s not enough to finish the shawl. When I bought this yarn over a year-and-a-half ago, I was positive that I had enough. In fact, I figured I’d have maybe a half-skein left over. But I was wrong. As I contemplated the nearly-two-charts that I still had to knit, and my inadequate ball of yarn, I considered my options. I knew I wasn’t going to find the same dye lot of the yarn, but I wasn’t even sure that this colorway was still in production. I toyed with the idea of changing to a different color for the last three or four inches of the edging pattern. Like an orange/red blend. The Icarus Shawl…on fire!
But before committing to any extreme measures, I decided to hike up the hill to my local yarn store and see if they possibly still had Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock yarn in “Black Purl.” They did! And it looked indistinguishable from the lot I’d been using. I bought a skein, with the hope that any differences in the dye would not be noticeable, due to the variable nature of the coloration in the first place.
Just like that, I was back on track. Disaster (in the form of an orange-edged purple shawl) averted!
I was as happy as this orange-red dog.
