Gahhh.

So, I may or may not have mentioned in an earlier post that I had to buy another ball of Karabella Aurora 8 to finish Backyard Leaves. Because 4 balls as was stated in the magazine was sooooo not enough. I don’t know what they did to make it work (maybe I just didn’t look at the errata… maybe it was a mistake…) but heck, I didn’t even swatch. Maybe it was my gauge, but really, I’m using the same needles, and my gauge is almost always spot on. And it’s awful hard to tell on a fabric like this one, anyway. No matter, I’m sure my gauge isn’t off /that/ much, in any case, and anyone could have the same problem. 5 balls should’ve been listed. Not four.

Because when I ordered another ball, from the same place, I naturally got a different dye lot. The kicker was that my original 4 balls did not have any color or dye lot stamp on them. The spots for these were blank. So I couldn’t even /attempt/ to match the dye lot, or request that they try to find one. I couldn’t even attempt it on a swap board.

Lame.

My new ball is indeed a different dye lot, in a shade darker and more wine colored than the original, which was slightly more reddish. It’s obvious. It’s at the /end/ of the scarf, the neat end, the nifty two-leaf tail. I’m very unhappy.

The only way to ‘fix’ this would be to maybe rip back a long long way to work every other row with each of the two different balls of yarn. But gegh. I don’t know what that’d turn out like, especially with the border on this scarf. No better, probably. Maybe worse.

Geh. What a disaster.

Oh well. With only 35 shortened rows to go… I can’t just quit. I just wish I’d had the money to order an extra ball in the first place. Usually, I wind up with too much excess yarn. Maybe an entire ball of excess. So I didn’t. And now I’m paying for it. Hoi.

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1. That totally sucks. I’m sorry!!

   Comment by Her Yarnness — May 14, 2007 @ 1:28 pm

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