And.....Four Steps Back

Or rather four rows. After the front knit increases I had merrily knit about five rows. As I started the return, I thought the chart was funny.

But no. I had knit the wrong cable on the right front. So you know what that meant.

Dive into the frog pond and rip-it, rip-it. So I ran needles through the sweater about four or five rows back before removing the original needle. At one time I had a 16 inch needle, a 24 inch and 4 double points, besides the original 40 inch. After ripping, some unknitting, and much gnashing of teeth, I was back to row two on the cable chart, with that delightful sticky wool/mohair wound around the skein. This yarn doesn't tend ladder down dropped stitches, except, it seems, at cables. Let's just say it was interesting.

So....

Onward we go again. Excuse me now while I go count stitches.

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October Mystery

On Monday night, the October Mystery KAL went live. I printed off my pattern (love it!) and started swatching. In a rather daring move on my part, I cast on during knit night. When I realized that I would be establishing the cables, as well as placing markers, I would have switched to another project. However I forgot to bring one. All went well though. And just a bit ago I cast on the front neck stitches and started the front cables. I think it is going well.

The above picture was taken before I cast on the last of the front stitches. Below is a close up of the nearly completed first repeat of the cable,

Not bad for barely three days, huh?

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The Black Cardigan

With the beginning of the October Mystery Knit Along just days away, I have been concentrating on knitting my black cotton cardigan. I have progressed several inches past the arm divide. As I was nearing the end of the skein, I decided to start working on one of the sleeves.

I took a great picture with my phone camera of the completed 3/4 length right sleeve, with small dog included for scale, But it is on my phone. And my cell phone is only working for short bursts. And until the replacement comes, uploading is beyond it,

So instead, I am including a picture of Leo instead.

I really hope the replacement phone in here tomorrow. This is driving me crazy.

 

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Like Comfortable Shoes

This afternoon, after Bible Study and dropping off my cell phone for some software issues (gasp, no cell phone!), I came home and sat down to some knitting and and an old movie.

Uh, you were aware I have just a bit of a passion for old movies, weren't you. And if not, where have you been?

Anyway, the movie , Rhapsody in Blue, sounded ok. I hadn't seen it before but it was based on the life of George Gershwin. I missed the very first few minutes but right away I knew I would like it. The actors were some I remembered from some great movies. Well, I hadn't seen many with Robert Alda, but there was Joan Leslie (Jimmy Cagney's wife in Yankee Doodle Dandy), and Rosemary DeCamp (his mother in the same movie). And there was grumpy old Charles Colburn, and Oscar Levant, equally grumpy.

Great music! As I expected when it was about Gershwin. And by the time Alexis Smith came on, as usual playing the dame I love to hate, it was as though I had slipped on a comfy old pair of shoes.

I love old movies. Or did I already say that?

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Sleeves!

Well, sleeve holes anyway.

 

I was fighting a stuffy throat yesterday and so instead of going to Spin Guild, I stayed home and knit. As a result, I managed to get the sleeves divided on my Black Cotton Cardigan yesterday. You can see the eyelet pattern if you look closely.

I am at the end of four out of fifteen skeins as shown above. I plan on switching to the elbow to 3/4 length sleeves when I near the end of the next skein and then possibly the neckband too. After those I can sail through to the last skein before casting off and finishing button and buttonhole bands.

Doing it that way I can get as much length as I can, if I start running low on yarn. According to the book, I may be about 60 yards short. But with the shorter sleeves, that gives me wiggle room.

Not sure if I can finish before the Knit ALong that starts in October but I am making good progress on sweater number 9.

 

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