April 07, 2003

Okay, okay. I know I had a date this weekend with these sweater pieces for some seaming, but I broke it. I did nothing knitting related all weekend long, and when I got the chance on Sunday evening to do something a little crafty the last thing I wanted to do was seam. Come on...if given the choice to seam [blah!] or cast on stitches for a pretty cotton jacket [rah!] which would you pick? Don't even say you'd rather seam because I'll box your ears, slappy.



Pardon me, my markers are showing.

Why, it's the beginnings of the back piece to my pretty cotton jacket! A few notes:

1) Some of those larger cables require the simultaneous use of two cable needles. Two! While it does look most impressive to see two cable needles on one's work while knitting, it's a big pain in the patootie to knit. So I figured out how to cross some of those stitches while using only one cable needle instead of two. The smaller cables are done without a cable needle at all (oh, how fancy!), as illustrated in Katharina Buss' Big Book of Knitting.

2) The back piece is a 28 row repeat, and while those 28 rows are very busy (including WS rows!), it's not as complicated as it looks. I memorized the chart and was knitting without it after working the first 14 rows. Lesson learned: Markers are your friends, even if a pattern (like this one) doesn't tell you where or how to place them and you're required to figure it out your own darn self.

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