Jon's Knit Blog

Because It'd Make a Boring Photo

Confession time: I have a maid. Love having a maid. She comes every other week, but the last time she was here, she moved a couple things around, causing the disappearance of a very important item for someone knitting a cable-y project: my cable needle.

So since I didn't have the time or the inclination to make a special trip to an LYS, I did the next best thing: I started the Matinee Coat. Sure, I probably should have dug out the Big Gay Wedding Afghan, but you know me, I love to start projects so much more than I like to finish them.

Now I have no more cable-y goodness than the last time I blogged. But I do have a few inches of moss stitch baby sleeve. Let me tell you, though: there's nothing photo-worthy about pale yellow Baby Ull in Seed Stitch. Trust me on this one! Perhaps once the sleeve is finished. The good news? I was spot-on with the stitch gauge for the pattern, even though I'm using a different yarn. I didn't worry about the row gauge since aside from the sleeve increases, the whole pattern is based on inch lengths.

I am going to modify it to knit the body in one piece, which is why I'm knitting the sleeve first. As Nathania pointed out, the pattern has drop shoulders (ie, no shoulder shaping) so you need to know how wide the top of the sleeve is in order to know when to divide for fronts and back. Hence the sleeve. I will, just for giggles, knit the body before I knit the next sleeve. Although I will be (probably) going to Boyz Night at KNY on Friday and I'll pick up a (few) new cable needle(s) there so that I don't get stumped again. I may also go to Ann & Kay's event tomorrow night at Knitty City, in which case I could resume cabling even sooner!

And I want to be knitting some cables. I also decided what I'm going to do for the "last" square. I've thought all along that I wanted to do one square that wasn't from the GAAA pattern book, and last night I figured out what it's going to be. I was reading Alice Starmore's "Celtic Collection" again (yes, I read knitting patterns for fun; call me a freak) and I remembered how much I love the cabled emblem on the front of Tara. So that's what the last square is going to be. [Wendy, hope you don't mind my using your photo; it was the first link that came up on Google...] It'll take a little bit of trial and error to figure out how to make it work as a square, but I am looking forward to it, largely because it's just a super-cool emblem. Yay!

The only problem? I have started craving intarsia again...