Yarn shortage = knit faster

A knitters worst nightmare is to run out of yarn before a project is finished.

It's even worse when a project is being knit from stash, with a yarn that is no longer being made.

Yes, that is happening to my knitting.

I started to knit Claude with my 10 balls of Debbie Bliss Cotton Angora.

The pattern states I need 9 balls to knit my size.

As i have 10 balls I feel good about starting this project.

I changed the pattern a little bit, I am knitting the body in one piece to safe on sewing.

It's a lovely yarn to knit with and the project is going well.

That is until I reach the two fronts and realise that I am left with just about 3 balls of yarn for the sleeves, collar and button bands.

Help, what went wrong?

I went back to revelry to check out all the projects knit with the same yarn.

I found the explanation on some projects.

It looks like the yarn was made in two versions with different meterage. Of course I happen to have the shorter one and the pattern was done with the longer one.

I have finished the body with all the trimmings and have started to knit the sleeves from the top down. I am knitting one sleeve using up one ball, I will then do the same for the second ball with the second sleeve. Once both have reached the same length I will use the half ball to knit the cuffs at the same time.

My sleeves will be a lot shorter. My only other option would be to frog the whole thing and knit something else.

To keep me going I have already looked at the next project. Miss T wants me to knit something for her. I have 6 balls of Kashmir DK and want to knit a tunic for her. She loves how soft the yarn is and likes to drape the balls all over herself.