I agreed to make a hat for a friend. She pursued Ravely and chose this pattern. We then went to a few yarn stores and she chose a pretty pink-ish, single-ply, bulky(!), Merino.
Since she's from a warmer climate, the goal was to make a very warm hat with few holes.
So I'm knitting this yarn on much smaller needles (US7-8) than the suggested (US15-17).
I got the brim completed on US 7... and ordered a set of US8 for the body, which took a couple of weeks to arrive.
Once the US8 needles arrived, I started on the cable. Then quickly realized that I might not have enough yarn to complete the hat. The pattern calls for 115 yards of a much smaller gauge yarn and my skein is 109 yards.
So at my first break in the day, I took a sample from the tail end and the ball band to the LYS we bought the first skein from a few weeks ago... would you believe that they not only had another skein in the same colorway, but that it was also the same dye lot?!? My Lucky Day!!
After returning home, I did a little math. At 14 rounds completed + the cast on and 60g used thus far, I should plan that each round uses ~4g.
At a total of 48 rounds for this project * ~4g per round = ~192g total for the project. There are a couple of increases and some decreases to come... and all but two rounds thus far was using a smaller needle, so this really is just a rough number.
Each skein is 200g.... so it is possible that I worried for no reason, but it will be very close with one skein. Therefore, it is better to be safe than sorry with a few rounds to go at the end. :-)
Stay tuned and Happy Fiber Arts Friday!
