livingdeb | Knitting Class, Week 4 Follow-up

I finished my cabling sample.

I like it, though it has lots of mistakes. First I got better at being quick. Then I got better at being accurate. In class, I figured out which cable needle I liked best--the thick one, so I can knit/purl directly from it sometimes.

After class I also got enough better at not using a cable needle so I just quit using it for these one- and two-stitch cables unless the knitting was just too tight. Cabling is still quite time-consuming and brain-consuming. I could maybe see doing it for a hat, but not a whole sweater, oy.

Then I finished my cat's paw lace sample. It was very brain-intensive the whole way.

Then I made a tiny sample of the X-O cabling design. (The O is on top.)

Robin says it looks like one of those gargoyles (oops, but with the O on the bottom, so it looks like the mouth).

I had heard that cabling is a lot more difficult in cotton yarn than wool because cotton yarn doesn't stretch, but I found that I tended to knit the wool yarn tighter, so it came out the same.