I seem to be acting out. With a class to complete that will lead to a job and a 30-day writing challenge for Camp NaNoWriMo, I got ready to put aside knitting. Instead, here I am starting yet another WIP. (Shh. Don’t tell.)
I’m using a much thicker yarn than the pattern calls for, but I think this heathered silk/alpaca/merino will look amazing with these cables.
I’m getting about six inches of length per skein of yarn, so far. Had to buy a few more to make sure I’d reach six or seven feet.
08-04-2022
I’m still working on this in little bursts of free time, but I’m making slow progress. Still a fun pattern, and I look forward to doing more.
09-30-2022
Do you ever do the thing where you ever-so-virtuously put aside a hobby for a while (knitting) in order to complete another kind of project (a class), and then manage to do neither the new task or the old hobby? Yeah, me neither. Except I did do a bit of knitting today for the first time in a while. Maybe that will lead to the other project scooting ahead a bit too? (Ha)
06-25-2023
I’m still here, still working on this project very slowly. It’s about as long as my arm right now. I haven’t knit for a month or two, so I messed up on a heavy cable row and had to rip it back out and try again--nervewracking, but it turned out okay.
01-15-2024
About 16” x 29” now when moderately stretched. I’d forgotten how fast and fun this was. And the yarn is so gorgeous! All bunched up (pre-blocked), it has a gorgeous rushing water kind of flow to it, but it stretches out so much. Being part baby alpaca, I expect it to stretch even more after wet blocking.
01-05-2025
Reminded myself how fun this pattern is today and put a couple more inches on it. I need to finish at least one of my WIPs soon, and it might just be this one. I think I’m about halfway done.
01-10-2025
The wrap is 6 “cells” tall now (unlike in the most recent photo, which is only 4 cells tall).
01-21-2025
About to close my 7th “block”/“cell” in a few rows
01-31-2025
Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgggg. Even color coding the cables on the chart didn’t prevent me from doing the wrong thing. I only messed up the last two RS rows, but that still meant frogging back three rows. And then four. And then five. And I mean frogging, not tinking--pulling the needle out (eee!) laying this flat on my mattress, and hunching over as close as I could get, with the sun beating down on the stitches, and trying to make sure nothing got away from me, then painstakingly reinserting the needle as I pulled out each stitch in that final row. (I’d done that two rows before, but missed one, and it dropped, and … ugh. I’ve made a note of where I think I am, and I’ve put it away until tomorrow. I’ve lost the light (and the will to continue today). I am glad this yarn is easy to frog but not slippery enough to get away from me when I’m rehooking it.
02-16-2025
I’ve finished another (36-row) chart repeat. My fourth, if my hash marks are to be believed.
Unstretched, it measures a little more than 36” long, but the alpaca in this is sure to make it grow once blocked. I’m getting about 6 inches per skein with this yarn and still have 9 of the 15 skeins remaining. What does that mean? I don’t know. But I think I’m more than halfway through with this. I’ll decide in a few more chart repeats
Oh, and I just started a new skein on row 35 of 36.
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