Math success! The yardage calculations set out in Afghan Math and More Afghan Math worked; this is the amount of yarn leftover after completing the purple stripe afghan.
This is the completed blanket, with Chihuahua and two real dogs for scale. It’s large enough so that I don’t have to be careful about wrapping up in it.
This is the amount of yarn left over when I took the afghan off the Bond knitting machine. The rest of the purple went into the borders along the edges that were not cast on/off rows. The borders are single and double crochet until the yarn ran out.
The second section was 19″. I had planned to do the third section the same width, so that the middle was the widest. However, revised yarn calculations told me I’d have lots leftover. There’s no point to leaving leftovers of this yarn, so I made the third section 23″ wide and put the narrow section in the middle.
This is one section–the first, I think–after being washed and dried. The yarn is 100% acrylic, so it wasn’t going to change shape much. However, I haven’t worked on the knitting machine with weights before, so I didn’t know what would happen to the fabric when it relaxed after being weighted.
These were the skeins at the beginning of the project. I’ve knitted out some of the first section, but I can’t remember how much.
All in all? Fun, and worth the $20 I spent for the yarn. I would not have knit a blanket like this, with this yarn, by hand. I would make something similar again with the machine. At this moment, I don’t know if Spinrite will hold a tent sale in mid-2020; they have cancelled sales at the Canadian store earlier in the year. However, I achieved the goal of using up this yarn before going back to the sale again, so the project is a success.
