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so there's that
Jul. 25th, 2024 07:45 amI reached the halfway point of my corner-to-corner blanket yesterday, and it was ONLY THEN that a new thought occurred to me:
A C2C blanket doesn't have a flexible endpoint. It's supposed to come tidily back to a point at the final corner. I've been running out the skeins as I go, which is excellent because it means I don't have to do math and I don't have a bunch of little bits of yarn left over... but it also means I've apparently been counting on hitting that last corner EXACTLY the way I need to.
And THEORETICALLY if all the skeins are exactly the same length (hahaha) then everything should be fine! The second half is an exact match of the first half, so I should finish up my last skein right at the last two stitches of the blanket. OR maybe the last skein will luckily be a few inches longer than the first one, rendering all my sudden concern completely unnecessary!
Of course the extremely easy solution to this would be to get an extra skein of the last yarn, just in case. But no! I am stubbornly not going to do that. What I've done instead is stopped the middle-est stripe early -- it doesn't have a mirroring stripe, so it should be fine if it's a little smaller. AND now I have a yard or so of extra yarn in the correct color. SAFETY YARN.
(This whole 'just start it and figure everything out as you go!' plan is really tossing up some plot twists along the way!)
A C2C blanket doesn't have a flexible endpoint. It's supposed to come tidily back to a point at the final corner. I've been running out the skeins as I go, which is excellent because it means I don't have to do math and I don't have a bunch of little bits of yarn left over... but it also means I've apparently been counting on hitting that last corner EXACTLY the way I need to.
And THEORETICALLY if all the skeins are exactly the same length (hahaha) then everything should be fine! The second half is an exact match of the first half, so I should finish up my last skein right at the last two stitches of the blanket. OR maybe the last skein will luckily be a few inches longer than the first one, rendering all my sudden concern completely unnecessary!
Of course the extremely easy solution to this would be to get an extra skein of the last yarn, just in case. But no! I am stubbornly not going to do that. What I've done instead is stopped the middle-est stripe early -- it doesn't have a mirroring stripe, so it should be fine if it's a little smaller. AND now I have a yard or so of extra yarn in the correct color. SAFETY YARN.
(This whole 'just start it and figure everything out as you go!' plan is really tossing up some plot twists along the way!)
