Right around the point of discovery...
Somewhere in there I confused a few things.
The original pattern called for seven colors of yarn. I decided on five. I thought I checked the pattern for the total grams of yarn needed, but apparently I forgot somewhere between then and now that I wasn't going to use all of each color.
I just now figured out that I will probably be finished with the blanket on the third color. Not the fifth.
This blanket is my TV knitting, so I tend to space out and not think about it. Ever, apparently.
This is what I get for not double-checking!
You see, those seven balls of yarn were 50g each. My five colors? 100g each.
The pattern calls for the blanket to be around 27" x 35".
My blanket is already ~22" long.
Each stripe is ~10.5" of that amazing fan lace...
I am kicking myself right now! There is NO WAY I am ripping back to adjust the big stripes so I can add in the other colors, and a blanket that is ~27" x ~52" seems crazy to me right now.
The five-color plan was going to make the blanket gender neutral. Pink-Green-Brown-Yellow/Orange-Blue.
It looks like I will be finished at Pink-Green-Brown, which isn't awful, but isn't what I wanted. At. All.
Kick! Kick! Kick!
This is what happens when you buy yarn, forget about it, start a pattern, forget about it, and pick it up months later.
The good thing? No baby in sight to use said blanket. I am still going to have this finished in plenty of time to start a little hope chest for our kids.
I suppose I could always buy one more skein of yarn and make another blanket. It could be Brown/Yellow-Orange/Blue.
I just found another skein of cotton, in a more denim-ish blue.
Then I would have a blanket more "girly" in color and another blanket more "boyish" in color.
Or, I could just keep knitting and have one long and funky baby blanket.
Oops.
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