I suspected a problem, but kept on knitting along, because I thought — WHAT?? I thought that the remaining ball of yarn would somehow get larger instead of smaller? It would somehow, like a religious miracle, suddenly become enough to finish this shawl. I thought I was knitting with 5 fish and 2 loaves and Voila! – I would have enough yarn to knit the multitudes. I was clearly delusional.
It was all those kfbs that put me over the edge. Once I had them done, and fought through the first 2 or 3 rows after them, which were pretty tight, I didn’t want to admit to the obvious – that I didn’t have enough yarn left to finish the pattern as written. Still not ready to admit that I clearly am an idiot of the highest order defeat, I started the picot bind-off with the next RS row. Two-thirds of the way through that, I was forced to admit what a fool I am again.
As there wasn’t going to be a miracle, I tried swearing. I walked away from it, took a shower, cleaned up the kitchen. Came back. Still only had mere yards of yarn left. Commenced swearing again. Seriously thought about just putting it in a bag and hiding it in the back of the closet, way far back. Far enough back where I wouldn’t see it, wouldn’t be reminded again of my stupidity for YEARS.
Made up my mind about what I had to do. Went into the back room and got a KP size 2 (very fine) needle about 36″ long, Popped a beer. Sat down and took a deep breath and started picking up stitches with that thin needle down below all those stinking kfbs.
This is long and tedious work, and not easy for those with really sucky close-up vision. I chose to do this on the row immediately below where all the damn increases were made. Knitting front and back into each stitch stretched them out a bit, thus giving me a larger target! I am grateful that I was able to get every stitch picked up! Did a few knit rows, to put a ridge on the RS, then went directly into the bind-off, and I’m really pleased with the final result.
Finished the beer.
