Cables, cables, and more cables

Introducing Shauna (Ravelry page here):

Sport-weight yarn, US 5 (3.75mm) needles. And lots and lots of cables.

The hem was supposed to be knitted on US 0 needles (2mm), but I didn’t have any circular needles in that size, so I used US 1 (2.25mm). Hopefully it will be OK. If not, I guess I’ll just cut off the hem and redo it. For the neck and sleeves, I have DPNs in the appropriate size, so that should be fine.

It’s knit in the round (to the armholes), so at least I don’t have a lot of purling to do. Not that I really mind purling, since I knit Continental style, but still, it slows things down a bit.

But for those who hate purling, here’s a great tip for knitting garter stitch in the round with no purling required. That Fleegle is so clever. I love clever people. I may have to give this technique a try whenever I get around to making one of those garter-yoke cardigans or pullovers.

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but one of my goals for the year is to end the year with less yarn than I started. Another goal is to make some of the more complicated patterns I’ve been wanting to tackle.

Unfortunately, I don’t have the necessary yarn for a couple of those patterns, so those goals are a little bit in conflict with each other.  I wanted to make Shauna from the recommended yarn, so I had to buy that. I guess I’ll just have to do a lot of stash knitting on the side to make up for it.

Shauna is not only an all-over cable pattern in a fairly fine yarn, but it also has saddle shoulders, which I’ve never done before, so that will be a new experience. I’ll need to analyze the sleeve pattern a little more – from the schematic, it looks like the sleeves are much larger at the top than I would expect for this size sweater, but maybe that’s just because of the construction. Unfortunately, my LYS no longer has the manufacturer’s sample sweater for me to look at, but I don’t remember the sleeves being large. Everything about the sweater seemed like the perfect fit.