If I had written this post this morning the title would have been “The suspense is killing me”. But that was when I thought I had a prayer of completing Shedir with just one ball of yarn. Now I am absolutely certain that it is not going to happen. You can see how much yarn I have (or don’t have as the case may be) and there are 25 rows left to knit, sure they get shorter and shorter, but still…

I have called Up Country Yarn, where I bought the first ball and they don’t have any, though they did say I have a good chance of finding a ball as it is apparently quite a recent dyelot number. Since then I have emailed pretty much every UK distributor of Rowan yarns listed on the Rowan website. Hopefully I will find another ball somewhere. If not I guess I will have to rip back and remove the fifth repeat of the pattern before the decreases start. For now I am just going to keep knitting until I run out of yarn.

I have to say I am finding this yarn/pattern combination very soothing. It is so deliciously soft to touch and I can’t rush the knitting, but neither is it dragging or tiresome. Perhaps it helps that I am new enough to cables to find the way it all weaves together quite magical, then again I suspect I may always find cables quite magical