04-03-2018

I have 48g of the grey (main colour) / 292 y.
I have 54g of the white (contrast colour) / 151 y.

The “small” I made previously used (made w / BT - so compare the weight of this yarn against the weight of the Charlevoix stuff):
main colour: 26g / 143y
contrast colour: 33g / 182y

You’ll need about 20% more of each yarn (by weight) to get you as far with this yarn as with the BT Loft.

Clue 1 and Clue 4 use similar yarn amount.
Clue 2 and 3 use similar yarn amount.

Clue 1 and 2 use half the yarn.
Clue 3 and 4 use half the yarn.

Committed to scarf width as of the END of clue 1. (That’ll be a smidge more than 8” from centre stitch.)

05-03-2018

As of starting Clue 2 - I have 40g grey (MC) and 44g white (CC) so Clue 1 takes 8g of MC and 10g of CC.

That means I need to have 9g left of grey and 10g of white left when I get to Clue 4.

Because Clue 2 and Clue 3 use a similar amount, just divide the total grams (pre-Clue 4) in half:

That means I have 30 g of grey to use in both Clue 2 and Clue 3. or 15 g of grey for each clue.

I also have 33-34 g of white to use in both Clue 2 and Clue 3 or 17g of white for each clue.

06-03-2018

7g white and 4g grey remaining on Clue 2 - I’m truly just winging it to use up the yarn alloted to this clue.

This yarn has great hand for worsted-spun, really crunchy yarn but the twist is weak and the strand-gauge is not particularly uniform. Means I have to look at the yarn while knitting. This, and the colourwork component of the cowl, makes for “active” knitting. This isn’t mindless - takes focus - particularly when stash-busting all remains.

21-03-2018

The more I knit with this, the more I liked it - or should I say, the less ambivalent I was about it - though still not sure I’d buy it again. It makes a lovely, springy finished object and, while woolen-spun, it’s still pretty soft in the scheme of things. Also, the stitch defn is quite good. Mind you, this yarn was a splitty mess - even with a pointy needle.

I’m also quite happy with the totally random striping and colour blocking I did. Theoretically, I was doing the version that tells you what to do, but I didn’t have enough yarn so I just started to make it up and it worked out just fine.

Weighing the yarn was the way to go - I have 3g left over and each side is of equal length. If you’re prepared to do a bit of prep, you can pretty well knit this with any remaining fingering-weight yarn as long as you have about 400 yards in total, maybe a bit less. 450 yards is a good amount, wherein 250 is in one colour and 200 is in another.

Pre-blocked dimensions: 8” x 54”
Wet measurement: 9” x 56”