Knitting Arg.
Blah.
So, I've been working on this coat, by Michele Rose Orne:
The skirt of the coat, where most of the lace work is, is split into two sections. I spent the last 2 and 1/2 weeks on one of those sections and am almost finished.
And, here is the big lesson learned. You know when they say to order all the yarn you need for your project? Yeah, good idea to do it.
If I were to have used the yarn that the project calls for, this would have cost me $320. Yeah, not a misprint, that is seriously the cost of this coat. WTF? Anyway, I still wanted to do it, and realized that if I used knitpicks, it would be 40 bucks. Still a lot, so I ordered half the yarn to begin with -- and figured that when I needed the other half, I would order it then.
It's been a month since I got the yarn and I got online yesterday to get the rest and low and behold, they have discontinued the color.
Fraking hell. Yes, I started crying. This prompted my husband to get online, ask me which colors I preferred best and then buy me the 20 skeins that I needed to complete the whole project.
Hopefully it will be here soon. I just haven't got the heart to rip it all out yet, but maybe tonight.
It's just been one of those bad knitting days...
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Is there something that you could do with it like bind off the top and save it for a quilt? I have seen some beautiful knitted quilts that are made from old (felted) sweaters.
When I have to restart something I often do it much better the 2nd time around.
*hugs*
i totally feel for you.
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hat happened to me with the first quilted afghan I did. It is now a throw/shrug kind of thing, because it's only half an afghan...thank you for running out of Country Blue, stupid yarn company.
It will look better next go-round, it will look AMAZING, because I have no idea how all of that decorative stuff on the bottom looks.
I've never heard of knitpicks, what's the story with that?
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did you do an online search? Contact maker? Call yarn shops.
Argggggggggggggggggg
i feel your pain.
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That's the saddest fucking thing i've ever heard. That's
why I don't go far out of my comfort zone. I don't like ripping...
it's too sad.
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I'm still looking at it. I probably won't rip it out until the other yarn gets here, but it will end up becoming something nice, someday. Like I said above, I have knitting penance, so maybe part of this will make me feel good. 
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Someone, somewhere has that yarn. Call them and explain- I bet they have a few leftovers sitting around. Did you check other companies?
Anyway, why do you have to rip it out? Keep it as a sculptural piece, or stick it in a nice frame on the wall. That's a lot of work to rip up. I'm teaching art now and I have a lesson called "the big mistake" where they make an (intentional) mistake and then work with it and integrate it with their artwork.
This was oddly painful to read. Sorry to read this - hope you'll make something lovely out of the pannel.
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and make some kind of thing with it - if nothing else, I have enough yarn to knit the other section and then make a skirt or something - but it wouldn't be a very practical skirt, and I feel like I need to get ds all ready for winter (I just finished his coat last month, I need to go get a zipper today and then I'll try and remember to post pics) and I need some wool sweaters, so I was trying to find something else to do with this yarn.
So, I've got the pattern for this:
or these super adorable knickers that I could probably wear in the fall:
Oh, and just for fun...something that I wanna make really soon (but it requires some hardware that I gotta go pick up):
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