It's really not fun...

[tinystrings]

...when you're knitting on the edge of your seat because you are *sure* that you are going to run out of yarn before you are finished with your sleeve caps. Fuckity-fuck-fuck. I think I'm going to be frogging my swatch, the one and only time I actually did a real one and saved it (rather than frogging it and using the yarn for the project). I have

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[congogirl]

I hate that, it's like the car/gas gamble. Driving or knitting faster isn't going to get you there sooner if you still don't have enough gas or yarn to finish.

[tinystrings]

Yes! Exactly like that! I *just* finished and I have 3 yards left per sleeve. I guess I wasn't as close as I thought but now I have plenty left to seam those sleeves... whew!

[congogirl]

So, this is without unraveling the swatch?

[tinystrings]

Yes! I feel very, very lucky about that too!

[randy_gibbons]

Xtreme knitting! It's more exciting than 24!