Bernat Pop! Here Be Water Dragons

My sweetie of a mum gifted me some acrylic Bernat Pop! in Blue Blaze. It's a lovely mix of blues, but I don't usually like self striping yarns, though I have been knitting with more acrylic as of late.

I didn't tell her about the self-striping part, but did tell her I would make her a scarf.

So I'm making this lovely doodle, the Here Be Water Dragons. I think the long color changes will look good in this pattern.

I've already had a little trouble with needles size. The pattern calls for worsted weight yarn, and this one is aran weight, so, when I started it initially on size 10 needles (like the pattern called for), I thought the fabric might be a bit dense.

So I ripped it out and started again on 11s! Well, I'm pretty sure the fabric was too loose on 11s, so I've ripped it out again, and gone back to 10s, and I'm going to stick with the 10s.

I'm planning on steam blocking this when I'm done, so I'm sure once I've "killed" my acrylic, the fabric will be plenty drape-y.

Problem.

Bernat Pop! only has 280 yards, while the pattern calls for 350-380 yards.

This means I'll have to do less repeats in the center section of the scarf. To make sure I have enough yarn for the third section, the narrowing section of the scarf, I'm going to weigh the yarn ball when I finish Section 1, do as many center repeats as I can, and then start decreasing when the amount of yarn left matches how much it took to do the increases.

That should work, right?

I'm pretty sure it will.

Also, hopefully my mum will actually wear this scarf. The last time I made her something fancy (a Nikolai crescent shawl in Cascade 220), she ferreted it away in a drawer and never wore it because it was "too nice." Fingers crossed.

EDIT: I've frogged this.