Knitting WIPs

Goodness gracious, I feel like I’m about to take a walk on the edge. I’ve gotten to this point with my hat! Would have finished it today if I wasn’t going gallivanting with my cousin. 😛

$Math For Knitters$

I decided to do some Math this morning since something in the pit of my stomach is saying to me that I don’t have enough. Did the Math this morning and it’s not looking too good. See that ominous 32 grams … lemme tell you what that means!

I started with 50 grams of yarn which equals 123 yds. I’ve used 18 grams which totals 3 inches of knitted work. Stay with me! I see your eyes glazing over already!!!! LOLOL! 😛 Now for the fun part, let’s do the equations:

50 grams = 123 yds
18 grams = 3 inches of work.

Burning Question: How many inches of work can I do with what’s left?

123 yds / 50 grams * 18 grams = number of yds already used. Answer: 44.58 yds
Second burning question: How many instances of 44.58 yds can I get out of 123 yds. 123 yds / 44.58 = 2.759 instances
Now if every instance is = 3 inches of knitting, how many inches can I knit with this skein — 8.277 aka 3 * 2.759.
How many more yards would I need to finish this? 9 / 8.277 * 123 = 133.74 yds
I would need a grand total of 133.74 -123 = 10.744 yds to finish this hat (give or take 1 – 2 yds when I get to the crown decreases). But for Math sake … let’s just go with 10.744.

Ultimate burning question: should I skip a repeat then pray to the knitting gods that I’ll finish?

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what I call living on the edge! LOLOL! 😛

After all the pictures of yarn received in the last couple of weeks, it’s about time I showed you all a W.I.P (work in progress). 😀 Right? 😛

So here you go: project one of MSK KAL/CAL — the beginning of my Tuva hat. First prize goes to the person who remembered that the colourway is one of my hand-dyed (blogged here). 😀 Makes it even more special to me. I really love how trying to balance out that crazy day gave me this beautiful skein which is going to turn into something wonderful!

Not going to say more until the project is done, then I’ll tell you all about it.

Going to go wash my hair now cause I’m hanging out with my friend later and I’m going to brunch at one of my favourite restaurants in the city — Blue Water Grill, shopping, and to the movies with my favourite cousin “Sabs” tomorrow so I gotta go get pretty! 😀