Learned several lessons with this one...

[sharpchick_2011]

I posted my questions about how the yarn was twisted so tightly from the winding...

Here is a photo of the last row before I bound off.



You can see how tightly wound it was in those first five stitches, as opposed to the width of the yarn as it was on the hank before winding. That continued over and over throughout the knitting of the scarf.

When I asked at the yarn store how many balls I'd need for the finished scarf, she said one.

So I bought one.

And got a 37.5 inch scarf.



Don't know any toddlers who will be dancing over this color combo, so I think I now have a very expensive table runner. Or a huge hot pad.

But I learned some lessons here...

130 yards of Camp Stove is enough to make half a scarf.

Any future purchases of this yarn will be wound by hand.

Comments

[oakmouse]

That yarn really looks to me as though it was deliberately spun to be of uneven gauge (thickness). If so, the yarn shop really needs to inform a newbie knitter that this is the case, because a yarn like that performs differently than a yarn of even gauge.

I agree with the ones who say rip it out and reuse the yarn for a different pattern. No need to keep a thing that isn't what you wanted.

[evilawyer]

I agree with oakmouse's call that this yarn looks like it's been deliberately spun for uneven gauge. Which can look very nice on the right project (which could be a scarf if you were going for the look), but it's something of a shock to see how it knits up if you aren't already expecting bobbles and areas of twist. Unfortunate the yarn store personnel didn't explain that the yarn wasn't yield a uniform appearance in the finished scarf, because this kind of yarn can be very fun to work with (even more fun to spin) if it's what you want to work with.