I was so excited for this sweater, as soon as Thea gave us a little peek, and it didn’t disappoint!

The cables go a lot quicker than you’d expect, especially because by the time I knitted the first sleeve, I had the chart pretty much memorized. An advantage of seamed sweaters - each piece knits up fairly quickly, and finishing a piece of it makes you feel accomplished. :)

I alternated two skeins at a time (every other row), and the only modification I made was to lengthen the body by about 1”: adding 0.5” before the waist decrease, and another 0.5” before the armholes.

It will definitely be helpful to make a note of your cable chart row at each point: waist decrease, bust increase, armhole decreases, shoulder shaping, etc. This will come in handy when knitting the back. I even wrote down each row # for the armhole and shoulder shaping rows just before starting them.

When I picked up for the collar, I skipped a couple of stitches in each central cable to bring it in a little bit, and mostly used a 3/4 ratio around the neckline. On the first row of the collar, I also decreased a stitch on each side of the shoulder, front and back (4 stitches total), ending up with 138 stitches. I made sure I tensioned the yarn a little more as I knitted the collar on US5 needles, to keep it pulled in.

Normally I’m about a 35” full bust, which would give me 3” of ease. At the time of these photos, I’m about 5-6 weeks postpartum, so I’m a little bit differently sized right now. ;)

I still had a bit remaining of the 6th skein, even with lengthening the body. I love the feel of this yarn!