Quandary: Cables
Look it’s Vivian, with me about two rows into a seed stitch collar when I noticed something. Cables. Sleeve cables.
It turns out my “memorizing” of the pattern had forgotten one thing, the cables every 4 regular repeats cross out into 2 sets of cables before crossing back into a single center cable. On the body I missed one near the top. I could live without fixing it. The Sleeves though, the sleeves.
That long stretch of center cable should be broken up by two cable crosses like the ones below.
As you can see from the back of the sweater, both the crosses and right where I stopped doing them as I focused on all the other steps in the pattern and “in pattern” wasn’t quite what it should be. The back is missing one cross as well. And like the front I could live with it but the sleeves keep getting me.
The problem is that all the decreases and changes that were happening to the sleeve for the shoulder saddle mean I will have to rip back that section. It took a couple hours to do so I could make up the time. The question then becomes do I rip back the entire shoulder saddle? Not too bad, or do I rip back to fix all the cables? And can I get this done by Saturday? Yep. Or really Friday when we pile into the car and head to Rhinebeck?
At this point I am really deciding how much frogging and knitting I will be doing while watching the debate tonight. I can always block the sweater on Sunday right? And who needs a zipper, its been unseasonably warm…right? Opinions?
Tune in next time for As the Cable Turns
Until then I leave you with ”River Song” taking care of “Eleven’s” fez at the Doctor Who photo shoot at NYCC.
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