I’m going about knitting this white thing in not quite the conventional way. Usually when you knit a sweater, you finish the body first and then do the sleeves. There’s even something called “second sleeve syndrome”, where the knitter loses their enthusiasm when there’s just the one sleeve left to knit.

With this white yarn, I’m not sure how far it will last me, and I have no way to get more. When the yarn runs out, the garment is done, no matter where that is. Finishing the sleeves was thus a priority because I definitely want it to have full-length sleeves.

Will the remaining yarn be enough for a dress, as I hope? Or do I need to change my plan and aim for a sweater? Maybe I can get it to stretch longer by combining it with some other yarn, in which case the garment doesn’t need to be done when the white yarn runs out?

I’ll knit to a point where I definitely need to make a decision, and then there will be a lot of weighing and measuring and calculating and geometry. But not now. Now I can just enjoy the knitting.