A' Cabling We Go

Finally got to start on the Must Have yesterday.  I have no idea why the color is all funky on the picture. It's a deep cranberry.

I gotta tell ya.  Cables kick my arse until I get used to them.  It wasn't until I got about three inches into the pattern that I finally started to feel like it was clicking along and the cussing pretty much stopped.

Though I ended up making up my own, a huge help for me was the "cheat" sheet that Kate made available to those of us on the Must Have KAL page.  When I first saw it I had one of those slap-myself-upside- the-head moments.  Duh.  Why didn't I think of that.  Keeping track of different row changes in different cables is what has always deterred me from texture knitting before.  I'm feeling pretty good about this one.  I might just be a cabler after all!  Speaking of "cheat sheets" you have to see the masterpiece that Nathania made!  All in color and everything.  Click here.  I'm not worthy!

I did find an error about halfway down the cable on the left side.  It was a pretty easy fix though.   I just dropped those nine stitches down to the mistake and knit them back up on double points.  I almost like doing that.  Makes me feel powerful.  Like *I'm* the one in charge of the knitting and not the other way around.

Happy Valentine's Day!  I greeted my guys with heart-shaped pancakes this morning.  Daniel thought I should try tree pancakes at Christmas next year.  What am I?  Pancake Picasso? 

Daniel's at school so I don't have a factoid for today.  I forgot to get one from him this morning.  I was kind of thinking they'd get a snow day today because we got dumped on all night and it's not supposed to stop for a couple of days.

Comments

[Farmer Bob]

Hi there, I am a farmer from Scotland with a sheep farm in the South West (Galloway)and just happened by your pages. Good to see that some people make good use of one of our products off the farm, I think I recognised some of my wool. Stop by the site at http://www.adoptafarm.com it is lots of wholesome fun for the kids with more than 2500 photos of real sheep in real life situations on the site. Part of our remit is to show people what life on the farm is really like since lots of kids (even in Scotland) have lost touch with the reality of farming and think that meat comes prepackaged from the supermarket. Hey they can even adopt a lamb which helps to keep the site going into it's fifth year. regards, Farmer Bob Adopta cute lamb online

[Eilene]

Your Must Have is going to be gorgeous. What a delicious color. Beautiful so far! I can't believe Nathania's cheat sheet. WOW!

[Mary Beth]

So glad you are on your way - looks great. Wow - Nathania's work is almost better than the actual sweater! I posted (lamely) about Aran-ripping back today. I think correcting mistakes is part of Aran-knitting - getting those cabley buggers to do what you want!

[monica]

The sweater looks great. Arans and fishermen knits are my favorites to knit. I love the color too. Happy Valentine's Day.

[Margene]

It really is looking good! Heart shaped pancakes...what a good idea!

[Benne]

Jean, Looks great so far! I looked at the knitalong page and was very impressed with everyone's work. Lovely. Your pancakes remind me of when the girls were little and we made pancake animals, hearts, wrote our names. Flipping those pancakes was a real challenge. Sweet times. Nice way for your "men" to start the day. Tell Daniel I'm looking forward to his next factoid.

[Maus]

Oh that's very pretty! I love that color, even if it appears a bit "grainy" on the picture. Cabeling is fun once you have the feeling that you kinda know what your'e doing. Its a pain to put down for a while (like weeks) and pick up again. You know you had it, but then you have to start all over again with understanding the pattern.

[Chris]

It's looking beautiful! Come on, Christmas Tree pancakes can't be too hard. At least you have all year to practice!

[Erica]

You're that far already? Wow!

[yvette]

It looks great, I love the colour. We too had lots of snow all night and its still snowing but not lying on the ground, and my boys are on 2 weeks holiday, nice huh!

[Norma]

Damn, you're good!

[Kim]

Your sweater looks lovely! Cabling is my favorite kind of knitting........you are doing a very nice job. Once the pattern clicks in your mind, it does does move right along and it is very easy to pick out a mistake. Have fun and Happy Valentines Day!

[Jessica]

Heart shaped pancakes are just too sweet - you're a better mom than me on a monday morning. It's all I can do just to smile before 7am much less do anything like creatively shaped pancakes. Hope you have a good valentines day!

[Lynne]

Well, Jean! It's just beautiful! I feel the same about lace patterns...they frustrate until you learn them and could do them in your sleep. So glad your pattern arrived! happy valentines day!

[Tracy]

Looking good, I knew it would!