Hi everyone! I'm going to participate but have never done a mystery knit along lol I'm not sure the steps I need to take to participate. Do I download the pattern and the clues are just additional parts of the pattern that get released each week? I downloaded this and I have the pattern in my cart on Ravelry.

So, I bought this yarn with a different pattern in mind, but I accidentally bought the wrong weight yarn and could not get it to work up in the gauge I needed. So I was so grateful for this knit along as it used worsted weight yarn and I can finally use this lovely yarn! My problem is though I have enough of the grain color for colors an and d, but only enough of the variegated yarn for color c, with 65 yards left over. Also, as I (mostly) buy my yarn with a project in mind, I have very little stash that’s not dedicated to something and definitely not enough for all that’s needed in color b, so I will have go purchase more yarn. So now my dilemma. The skeins of yarn I get are in 210 yards skeins, color b calls for 270 yards. In the interest of using as much yarn from my stash as possible, can I get away with using the same color as c? If I buy a new skein in that color, with the yardage I have left over from c I would have 265 yards. Which would leave me playing yarn chicken with 5 yards left over, but I (fingers crossed) would have enough leftovers in my stash to get me that 5 yards. (Or depending on how the pattern turns out I could also just improvise with the color work) Would having the same color b as c even work with this pattern? Or do I have to buy 2 whole new skeins for b? My other options are so slim and I would have to borrow from other projects to get the 5 yards anyway…. Help.(Second photo is possible options for remaining 5 yards compared to the color way picked for c. The top two is fingering weight so I would have to hold them together and gauge would be tricky on the bottom is another worsted weight yarn but color would be way off. I mean the colors would be way off for the top one too, but here’s to hoping the blue saves the day?)