Frogs & Luna Lovegood-style
I think that the picture makes my cabling look better than it really is. Still, as I put to Adelle today in IM:
“I’M CABLING! I’M DOING SHORT ROWS! I’M READING A CHART!”
I was almost finished with the first chart of Eris’s collar when I decided that I really hated how my cables were turning out. I haven’t really done cables before, and I think I have unreasonably high expectations for how mine should be turning out. Whatever. I thought they were messy and uneven, so I frogged everything I’d done and started over.
This is the result as of 9:00, and I’m much happier. That’s Chart B right there, for those of you playing along at home. I’m seriously quite impressed with myself for sticking with it and mostly understanding what I’m doing. The thing I figured out with my cabling is this: I suck at knitting from the cable needle. The cable needle, in this case, is one of my short Brittany size 3s. It’s perfect for this, really. When it’s not holding stitches it’s tucked behind my ear, Luna Lovegood-style. I just can’t knit/purl the stitches off the cable needle. If I want my tension to be any kind of consistent, I have to move the stitches back on to the left needle after doing the twisty magic in the background (or foreground, as the case may be). I don’t know what the “right” way of cabling is (this is what comes from only learning from books/websites), but this works for me right now.
I even remembered to put in the row marker at the correct place. (Both times I reached that point.) Go, me!
P.S. I hate knitting with straight needles. Just wanted to share.
