I am sure we have all been there!
You decide to create something and head to your yarn stash.
If you happen to be anything like me, this is a rather daunting task with a stash that could easily be seen from outer space if stacked corrrectly.
After digging through the mountain of these unused (but nevertheless precious) yarns, you spy a few balls of yarn that you purchased a while back. You remember that you had purchased several more balls (just to be sure you had enough) not all that long ago. You proceed to tear the yarn stash apart to find them.
Eureka, there they are! This is plenty for a blanket for sure!
Yes, this yarn will do nicely. I like this yarn. This yarn will work and this will be brilliant. How fortunate that I have so much of it. It pays to be prepared!
The project is begun with a lot of enthusiasm. Working away you use 1 ball, 2 balls, 3, then 4 and at about this point you start to calculate the rate of usage and the amount of pattern left to create. Mmmmmm, is this an issue? Nah, it will all be fine. There is enough yarn to complete this for sure!
Ball 5 is disappearing fast and your mind is now more focussed on calculating over and over again just how much yarn is required to finish this masterpiece. The speed your hook is travelling is beginning to slow. It comes to a grinding halt.
You begin to look online for yarn suppliers. Oh, dear! This is now discontinued. This isn’t good!
Instead of crocheting you spend the next few hours trying to find someone, anyone who has a ball in stock (just in case of course, as you may still make what you have stretch just far enough).
Ah, a supplier with stock. The order for 1 ball is placed. Back to crocheting.
What is THAT in my inbox. They have refunded me. What the……..yarn out of stock. How can this be? What is wrong with them? They clearly stated they had stock.
You run back to your project and again recalculate how much yarn is needed to complete. The amount has not by some miracle changed. Back to trawling through the internet to find that one ball. You start to beg online in social groups.
Please Sir/Madam, can I please have some more.
Surely you have one ball somewhere that you could spare?
You have another sleepless night plotting revenge against all yarn manufacturers who discontinue yarn lines when they must know you will be needing some in a few months time.
Then you remember where you purchased the last few balls of this yarn from. Yes, they have some. But wait! How can they possibly be on holiday? Do they really expect me to wait 5 weeks to get one ball of yarn? How dare they!
Work continues on the blanket. Ball 6, 7, 8. 9…. One ball remains. The rows are again counted. Maybe, just maybe I could make it. But would I have enough yarn left for the designated fringe, I have planned? Mmmmm.
Only one way to find out!
And so the crochet continues at a rather frantic pace. The blanket is completed with a bit left, but will it be enough to add that fringe?
A lot of thought is put into the length of this fringe, how many strands of yarn should be used? How far apart can these be spaced without looking odd?. Calculations. More calculations.
You hopefully begin placing the fringe.
One end of the fringe is done!
Looking at the other end, dread creeps in. There seems no way that this bit of remaining yarn will stretch that far. But then your eyes land on those ends still to sew in. Some of these are rather long.
This could work!
The ends are carefully sewn in and every scrap of yarn that could be saved put aside.
Back to adding the remaining pieces of fringe.
Success!
I have never, ever finished a blanket with zero yarn left, but today I ticked that one off my bucket list.
I don’t need that extra ball of yarn and never did.
What was created from this yarn you ask?
Nope! You will have to wait. It is now in testing. I will say it features my signature dragonflies and it is pretty spectacular!
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