Hello?

Is anyone still reading this?

Even though I’ve been absent and post-less for a long time, I am still knitting.

For real!

I did take a break from the cardigan for a few weeks and finished a couple of presents for friends and family.  A pair of Jaywalkers for Gary and a white/green chullo for my co-worker Shelby.

I won’t be sharing any pictures for those projects. Probably because I just wanted to finish those presents as soon as possible, check them off my list and get back to the real work of cabling on the cardigan?

Also, I was afraid to edit and upload photos with the new computer we purchased a few weeks back.  It’s very fast for editing photos and has 2 beautiful wide screen monitors, but all the monitor settings were a bit off and took some time to adjust properly.  Everything was bursting with color, almost fluorescent!  I’m still not sure if the pictures are coming through the way I want them too?  I swear I’ve edited and uploaded these photos about 10 times already after seeing how wierd they look at work.

Help!

Now that I’ve picked up the cardigan again, I’ve been able to complete about 16″ of the body and start the first sleeve.

This is what the top side of the sleeve looks like (the braided cable will travel up the center of the sleeve and continue all the way up the shoulder):

The pattern suggests that you increase on the underside of the sleeve using your filler stitch, but I didn’t like how it was knitting up. The whole bottom half of the sleeve would have been a large expanse of 1×1 twisted rib *{knit through the back, purl} repeat from*.  It just seemed like too much filler and not enough cables?  Instead, I decided to increase in cables after charting everything out:

Hopefully, the underside of the sleeve won’t look too wonky once it is grafted onto the body?  I’ve worked up to row 34 on the chart or about 7″:

Hmmm…..

Once I make it past all the increases on the first sleeve, I’m going to get started on the Habu Kit 70 for my aunt. I was supposed to start it weeks ago, but was too scared to swatch.  Probably because a couple of amazing knitters mentioned that there were gauge problems and suggested working the pattern on smaller needles or making modifications to the pattern?

Are you excited about Christmas?

I’m still trying to get in the Christmas spirit, wondering if it’s too late for all that…

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