The pattern calls for there to be 2 plain rounds after the last pair of charted/plain (making it 3 plain rounds before the bind off)... But I am worried I don't have enough yarn for another plain--(the first of the 2 called for!) I am positive I don't have enough yarn for 2 rounds!
I have reeled of some 30 yards to reserve them for the
bind off. Sound like a lot.. Until you do the math. The shawl
measure loosely—about 54 inches in diameter.. Let's round that up
to 60--(math is so much easier with multiples of 10!)
The circumference equals the diameter
(60) X Pi--(3.14) OK so lets round Pi down to 3.
3 X 60 is 180 inches
of diameter--that's 5 yards!
The bind off needs at least 4 times
that—or at least 20 yards. But I want a really loose bind off.
An extra 10 yards is really not very much. So planning 30 yards for
the bind off is OK—generous, but really not excessively so. With
the 30 yards reeled off— (and made into a butterfly)--look at what
is left of the skein—Nothing! Well, virtually nothing!
A single round will need –well I am
going to measure out 10 yards—and see how much of the round I get
knit. 10 yards should take me at least to the half way point of the
round. I could be wrong with my math—and I would rather know it
sooner, than later!
I think 16 yards (which is a bit more than 3 times the diameter--AND my usual approximation of yarn needed for a row/round) is enough for another
single round..
I also think that, even if I am wrong, and it is not, I will still have enough yarn
left in the ball to complete the round. But I do want to have a
clue! I don't want to run out of yarn with just a few stitches left
to bind off.
If I am wrong--well I might start the bind off
at the half way point- and it is clear I don't have enough yarn to finish the round--Well -½ of the shawl will have 2 plain rounds
before bind off, and the other half of the shawl will just have a
single round of plain knitting before the bind off.
It looks like I am going to use almost every inch the 2250 yards in the skein!
Lost and Found sock is getting a heel
flap—a good 20 rows completed—another dozen or so to go—The
socks have 64 stitches—and 32 is just about the right number of
rows. Stripe socks have been untouched this week end.
