Four chocolate evening

So close. I was this close to finishing Tempting tonight, and then things went awry.

I've been working from a very limited supply of yarn. About a year ago, I bought eleven balls of Filatura di Crosa Luna yarn in a caramel brown. It was intended for a gift sweater for a person with whom I am no longer in touch, and the 1100 or so yards has been languishing in a bin in the craft closet ever since. Waiting.

For some reason, I thought this would be enough to finish Tempting without any adjustments. Nice caramel brown yarn, nice dark brown grosgrain ribbon with thin blue stripes, cast on to the Addi Turbos (because it's the only circ I have that's long enough, not because I like Addis, because I don't) and away we went. Until I hit the eyelets at the top, it looked like there would be just enough.

I forgot that yarnovers eat up yarn. So I cut the last few rows a bit short (3 instead of 5) and started to bind off. I only got about halfway before I realised that even tying in leftover bits of yarn from the (very tiny amount of) seaming was not going to gain me enough yarn to finish. So I started backing up. The plan was to undo the half-finished bindoff, splice in some chocolate brown Mondial Artica for the last three rows, and then do a crochet edging of the same color at the bottoms of the sleeves. Go ahead. Go back and look at the photo. I'll wait. Got the idea? Okay then.

Anyone who has ever used a nice, fluffy, soft yarn on a pair of Addi Turbos can probably predict what happened next. A cat jumped, I jumped, and 15 stitches slid off those blasted slick needles and ran like the devil. Right back down to the yarnover row. No matter how I cursed and bargained and picked at it with my crochet hook, the ladders kept getting worse.

So I ripped it. Down past the yarnover row. Down about a quarter inch below it, in fact. I place the yarnover row there, and gave up for the evening. Now I'm eating chocolate.

Blasted Addi Turbos. Time to invest in some more powder-coated Inox circulars.