I seem to be acting out. With a class to complete that will lead to a job and a 30-day writing challenge for Camp NaNoWriMo, I got ready to put aside knitting. Instead, here I am starting yet another WIP. (Shh. Don’t tell.)
I’m using a much thicker yarn than the pattern calls for, but I think this heathered silk/alpaca/merino will look amazing with these cables.
I’m getting about six inches of length per skein of yarn, so far. Had to buy a few more to make sure I’d reach six or seven feet.
08-04-2022
I’m still working on this in little bursts of free time, but I’m making slow progress. Still a fun pattern, and I look forward to doing more.
09-30-2022
Do you ever do the thing where you ever-so-virtuously put aside a hobby for a while (knitting) in order to complete another kind of project (a class), and then manage to do neither the new task or the old hobby? Yeah, me neither. Except I did do a bit of knitting today for the first time in a while. Maybe that will lead to the other project scooting ahead a bit too? (Ha)
06-25-2023
I’m still here, still working on this project very slowly. It’s about as long as my arm right now. I haven’t knit for a month or two, so I messed up on a heavy cable row and had to rip it back out and try again--nervewracking, but it turned out okay.
01-15-2024
About 16” x 29” now when moderately stretched. I’d forgotten how fast and fun this was. And the yarn is so gorgeous! All bunched up (pre-blocked), it has a gorgeous rushing water kind of flow to it, but it stretches out so much. Being part baby alpaca, I expect it to stretch even more after wet blocking.
01-05-2025
Reminded myself how fun this pattern is today and put a couple more inches on it. I need to finish at least one of my WIPs soon, and it might just be this one. I think I’m about halfway done.
01-10-2025
The wrap is 6 “cells” tall now (unlike in the most recent photo, which is only 4 cells tall).
01-21-2025
About to close my 7th “block”/“cell” in a few rows
01-31-2025
Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgggg. Even color coding the cables on the chart didn’t prevent me from doing the wrong thing. Only for the last two RS rows, but that still meant frogging back three rows. And then four. And then five. And I mean frogging, not tinking--pulling the needle out (eee!) laying this flat on my mattress, and hunching over as close as I could get, with the sun beating down on the stitches, and trying to make sure nothing got away from me, then painstakingly reinserting the needle as I pulled out each stitch in that final row. (I’d done that two rows before, but missed one, and it dropped, and … ugh. I’ve made a note of where I think I am, and I’ve put it away until tomorrow. I’ve lost the light (and the will to continue today). I am glad this yarn is easy to frog but not slippery enough to get away from me when I’m rehooking it.
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