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Last night, I finished the second ball of J&S laceweight about a dozen stitches shy of the end of round 103 of F&F. Two hanks of 252 yds in 103 rounds. There are only—only, he says—190 rounds. I began to worry again that my gauge was off and perhaps I should have used #6 Am needles.

I fired up Excel and started counting. At the end of round 103, I have knit 28,576 stitches, not counting the frogged and tinked ones. At the end of round 190, I will have knit 120,688, more or less. I have, therefore, knit 23.7% of the shawl, excluding the crochet bind-off. To that point, the shawl should take 2,130 yds of yarn, or 94.6% of the stated 2,250-yard requirement. After the bind-off, I’ll probably be right on target. Woo hoo! Mathematically, I’ve got gauge.

BTW, the pattern calls for 10 225 yd skeins and I bought 11 252 yd skeins, so I should be fine. And have leftovers.

The glass-half-empty view, of course, is that, as of the end of round 105, I haven’t even knit a quarter of the shawl.

I think I’ll go read now.