I started the Juneberry Shawl from Brooklyn Tweed many months ago. It was such a quick knit and I was almost done... and then I realized I was going to run out of yarn. When I went shopping for this project, I had bought enough yarn and I was going to have some leftover. That all changed of course. There was maybe 8 inches left on the border and my little yarn ball was not going to get me very far.
To check and see if my eyes were deceiving me, I used a trick that Cheryl Oberle had told me about during one of her classes that I took. It involves some math and a yarn scale, and it helped me figure out if I really did, or didn't, have enough yarn for the rest of the border. You can read about it here on her blog.
After weighing the yarn ball and a little math, I came to realize that I really was going to need more yarn. I ordered three skeins from Webs and as soon as it arrived, I started back up on my shawl. Since the dye lot was similar, but not the same, I alternated every two rows with the new and the original yarn.
And here is the result!
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