Eris Collar — Continued!

Originally uploaded by dormousie.

Thanks for your encouragement on the cables … I decided to keep plugging at it and see how it turned out. I also looked around on Flickr and the Eris knitalong Yahoo Group to see pictures of other people’s cables at this point. Turns out that they ALL look this way. What do I know? I don’t cable, I don’t knit with wool, and the only thing I’ve ever blocked was a lacy wrap!

So I’ve kept going and have finished the right half of the collar and started on the left half. Now, if anything, this project will teach me to read ALL instructions in a step. You start the left half of the collar by going back to the beginning of the right half and picking up stitches. So what did I do? I immediately went and picked up stitches, only I couldn’t get it to work properly. Then I read the rest of the instructions, which tells you to not use the cast-on edge, but instead pick up through the middle of the actual stitches. Where do you think I was trying to pick up?

So then, after a frantic search through the KAL group again and a couple of “What the HECK?” IMs to Adelle, I figured it out and did just fine. And doesn’t it look pretty?