Just a bit more . . . or Oh Crap

I am making the City Tweed Dropped-Stitch Shawl for me.  It needs to be finished today, so that I can block it tonight, so that I can pack it on Saturday to take with me to Texas on Sunday.  Now, some people will wonder why I would feel the need to take a shawl with me to Texas in May and it is simple, when the temp in the evening, it feels really cool.  So I thought that this would be a perfect solution.  I am making it of a fingering weight so it will be light but sufficient to keep my arms warm.  The one place I know for sure I will wear it will be at an evening event that I've attended in the past.  It is outside and we will spend lots of time under the stars.  

So, you know when you are tooling along on a knitting project and you are getting close to the end and you keep feeling up the quickly disappearing ball of yarn and know, just know, you will have enough to finish . . . and you get to the end, cast off and have six inches left.  It is a great feeling.  Truly.  

Then there are the times when you are tooling along on a knitting project and you are getting close to the end and you keep feeling up the quickly disappearing ball of yarn and know, just know, you will have enough to finish . . . and you all of a sudden realize that not only are you running out of yarn but you have six more inches of knitting to do.  It is truly a sick feeling.  

So last night I sat with my knitted project and thought "I'll just bind off and be done with it.  It is for me anyway."  And then I realized that I had inches left to knit, probably about twenty rows.  Granted, those our decreaseing rows but it also includes at least four more dropped stitch rows.  

You can see from the pic below from where I cast on (on the left - circled in red) and the matching, oh wait, missing piece on the right (circled in yellow), with the wee bit of yarn that is left.  

Just so that we are clear, this is what I had left on the skein.

But, there is an upside.  I have another full skein of the yarn.  I was going to make fingerless mitts with the other skein but I will have to wait and see exactly how much of it I use up.