I happily knit away on my Flower Basket Shawl for the suggested number of repeats that the pattern told me my yardage would support (I had 500 yds of lace weight cashmere, and the pattern says, that for the scarf shawl size in lace weight, 425 yds is needed). I sat down to do the bind off last night, and off-handedly look at my ball of yarn. Wow, that’s a lot of yarn left over, I think, I was only expecting about 70 yds.

So, in the effort to be scientific about it, I pulled out the kitchen scale this morning. It weighs in at 22 grams. That is sort of a lot… well, how much did I start with? No idea, cause the ball band only lists yards. [sigh] Thankfully, the Just Our Yarn website lists yds/lb. Myne supposedly has 6400 yds/lb, which figures out to about 400 yds/oz, which means the 500 yd ball should have weighed 1.25 oz, which is 35 grams. And I still have 22 grams left in the ball. So, I have used less than half, when I should have used almost all. I’m pretty sure I counted my repeats correctly.

So, I weighed the shawl, trying to exclude the weight of the needles. It weighed in at 17 grams, which is close to the 13 grams my math (35-22=13) told me it should have weight. WTF? Maybe I did miss a repeat, although when I count them, I get 8. Course, when I try to stretch out the shawl a little it looks really freaking small. I sort of took gauge into consideration when I started (I had a finite amount of the yarn, and wanted to make sure me and the designer agreed so I wouldn’t run out of yarn). Maybe I’m getting a slightly lacier gauge, that would account for using a lot less yarn, right?

I think I’m going to have to rip back what I’ve done of the bind off and the edging. This make me sad because I wanted to start working on the first clue of Mystery Stole 3, which was released today*. And there’s always the worry that I’ll rip back, add a few more repeats, only to run out of yarn on the last row. [grr]

---

*The last day to join is July 6th if you want in.