It’s been a busy few weeks since I’ve shown off my Hattie Cowl on blog. And my carpal tunnel has been flaring up. So I haven’t been up to much knitting. But when I was knitting, I was working on my Uma Cardigan that Tabetha Hedrick designed for this spring’s line of Sabine. I’m working it up in 12 Sirius because I thought that it would be great to have a black sweater to be able to throw on top of anything. Want to see it?
There you go! My work here is done. See you in a couple of weeks!
No? That doesn’t satisfy your curiosity. FINE. I’ll take another picture!
So the reason why my sweater was in that shoe box was yarn management. I decided to make this sweater in three separate pieces as written, instead of doing it seamlessly. I know that the designer believes in the structure that seams give a garment and I decided that I would follow that principal. But I sometimes get lazy in counting and what if I made a mistake in the cabling on one row and it was obvious because it was near another cable? I couldn’t live with that! So instead, I worked the sweater as three separate pieces, knit all at the same time!
I started working on this sweater in January or February and put it down for March and April. I only got a few inches done in the last couple of weeks. I don’t think I’m as speedy a knitter as Sarah and her OJAI Hooray sweater!
In order to make SURE I didn’t miss a decrease, I decided to mark each one with a removable stitch marker. It was great because several times I caught myself having finished off a row without making a decrease and the act of placing the marker reminded me. I had twice as many markers, I’d leave them all in until it was time to seam to give me an easy reference to line up the seams.
One last look at the cable! I’m pretty happy with it, despite that bit of pulling in the “><” section. Anyone have any great tips for preventing that?