I often use a contrast FANCY yarn on my GD cardigans, scarves, or whatever.

I used a contrast on GS's jacket once and knitted a little car in the same
yarn, sewed it on the front...very cute.

Edna in Sydney


"YW" wrote in message
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I was making a cardigan for my daughter. All is done except button/
buttonhole band (one piece around the neck) and I'm out of yarn!
It was a bag of yarn from ebay, so no way I can find this exactly
thing even partial skein (or is there hope?). My calculation was tight
but optimistic, too optimistic...
Somehow I lost track of number of skeins in the middle because we were
moving. Now I turned over all the boxed yarn again and again. Seems
like it WAS the last skein.

What are the suggestions please?

It's made in one color, cuffs, bottom and band should be done in 1x1
rib knit.
So far I came up with two possibilities:
1.I may add something completely different for the band and then do
some simple embroidery thread along the rib knits. Hmmm... will
probably look like I ran out of yarn at the end...
2. I may cut yarn somewhere at the end of the cuffs/bottom rib knit,
pull out yarn from couple of rows of each, making them shorter, graft
what's left and use pulled out yarn to finish the band. That leaves me
with single color and same yarn all over, although band will be made
with knots/joins (may be not the best place to join yarn a few
times...), and technically challenging.

Any other ideas????

Yulia on the edge of despair...