It struck me today that I will not have enough yarn for this sweater I'm planning. I have about 1,500 yards and knit on size 3 needles, with my long torso and the tons of ribbing I'm going to do (on size two needles), it will not go far.

That was enough to get me from zero to psycho in about three seconds flat. I called the original yarn shop I bought the yarn from and proceeded to go into a rambling, muttering, scary conversation with the poor clerk.

"Well, you see, I'm making a sweater. And it's going to be long. With a shawl collar? So I need more Jaeger Trinity (because she already knew what yarn I was talking about?). Do you have anymore? {We have one ball} One ball? Oh god. Oh god. Ok, that brings me up to, uh, about 1,700 yards. Maybe 1,800. Haha, I'm bad at math, you know? Anyway, do you think it will be enough? It will have long sleeves. {Uh, it's about 1,744 yards} Have you worked with Trinity before? I'm going to use size 3 needles. You know, for the stretch factor. {Well, in fact, I've used it for one project...} OK, so you know. Do you think that much yardage will work for me? I mean, it's going to be a lot of ribbing."

And on and on and on. Hopefully I'm not the first neurotic, terrified customer she's talked to, but I dunno, I think my reputation at Stitch DC is ruined forever. At least they're going to hold on to that lone ball of yarn for me.

People. I am a wreck right now. I've called at least 8 yarn shops in the Northern Virginia area (just imagine the above conversation repeated 8 times). Everyone is sold out. I'm this close to calling the distributor. (BTW, the lovely man at Hunt Country Yarns is an awesome enabler and gave me the number and some tips on how to get the information I need from them. Very helpful, and it will definitely influence my yarn shop choices in the future. Why can't they all be this nice?)

One place has more than one ball. Aylins Woolgatherer has two balls. So this afternoon I'll be driving all over the DC metro area for three little balls of yarn.

Ok, confession time. If you can't already tell, running out of yarn is my number one knitting phobia. *The* number one.