Damnation!

I started a beautifully cabled top-down cardigan in hopes of using up a large chunk of yarn I bought for another sweater that I never made. I used up the first skein of yarn and grabbed another out of my yarn drawer without looking too closely. I then set aside the project for a couple of days and only looked at the new skein and the quarter of finished sweater together as I was packing up to go visit a friend. Shit. Different colors.

Going back to my yarn drawer I realized that the first skein was one of two that I had purchased for accent colors in the original sweater, not one of the eight skeins of main color I have. SHIT!

Now I'm left with two ultra shitty options:

1. Buy 5 more skeins of yarn at a total expense of around 50 bucks

2. Rip out a perfectly good sweater and start over with the yarn color that I have enough of.

Now, normally I promote ripping, but for me normally is when you have a terrible mistake that can't be fixed any other way or your sweater looks like crap and you hate it and will never wear it. This sweater is pretty, I really like it and I don't especially want to rip it out. I also don't especially want to spend 50 bucks when I have eight skeins of the same yarn in a slightly different color that need to be used. What to do?

My lesson from all of this is don't be flippant about your stash, check before you start that you're using the right stuff.

I even made a gauge swatch for this one!!