A word to the wise: If you buy a kit at a knit shop do not delay in knitting it up. I bought a slouch hat kit with denim ReBound yarn. Kept it with my stash of yarn for over a year. Finally started, I used the large version because, well, I have a big head in more ways than one. Cast on 88 stitches. Used long tail cast-on. Got to within needing 12 more rows and the crown before the end of the yarn. No problem, I remembered the yarn shop had extra skeins of the yarn. The key word here is HAD. Like they once HAD, but now no longer. I admit I broke my own rule. I went online. Totally, a few choice search words, and the internet will take you to the only remaining spot in the entire world where there is one remaining skein of denim color ReBound. You think. You can't be sure of a color match until you have both color samples in your own hands. Forced to wait several days on the US Mule. By fate didn't have the new skein until after nightfall, worst time to looking at color matches. Information all matches, same color number, same dye lot, same number of meters of length. Take a chance everything is still accurate. Start working in the new skein. YooHee, by daylight it still matches. Finish the last rows, double-points for the crown, weave in the ends, maybe I'll wear it to the book club today.
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