I would not be able to knit this pattern without the handouts from Franklin Habit. I took his Twisted-Stitch Knitting class at the Minnesota Knitters’ Guild Yarnover.

I used the German Twisted cast-on to cast on 220 + 7 steek stitches.

Love the yarn. It is soft in my hands, has good stitch definition, and is a pretty color with a little bit of shine. I ended up using just a couple yards more than 6 skeins; I started the 7th skein to overcast the steeks.

I like the look of this cardigan by jamesinstlouis, and I think I am using some of the same twisted stitch patterns (from Twisted-Stitch Knitting by Maria Erlbacher): Bandzwickel (#97) (1st photo) in the middle of the back and Sechsfache Streifenkette (#49) (2nd photo) , as well as Klausner Model (#76) (3rd photo).

If I knit this again, I would be more careful about pattern placement. As it is, the sleeve insets leave about 3 stitches from the Klausner Model at the edge of the sleeve, which looks a bit odd.

Right yoke: Starting the right yoke is where the directions are “sparse”, quoting lakesidehen, who is far more kind with that comment than what I’m thinking. As she says, if there’s going to be a cable down the sleeve, it needs to start here. (The directions don’t mention the cable until the left yoke.) Start half of the cable here, then add the rest of the cable at the next provisional cast on. I put the stitches for the back right side on a needle then cast on 19: 1 selvedge stitch, 8 for half of the cable, and 10 for the rest of the saddle. Then the first row of the saddle is a wrong side row, so I started with row 10 of cable #155, as it is referred to in the pattern. On the right side, I purled the stitch next to the cable so it stands out better. Count # of stitches on front (34 in my case) in order to know when the yoke is even with the front neck edge. Cast on 17 more stitches: 7 for the other half of the cable (the selvedge stitch from the earlier part becomes the 8th stitch of the cable) plus 10 for the rest of the saddle.

After you get to the armhole and pick up stitches in the selvedge and underarm, the directions in both Meg Swansen’s Knitting and Interweave Knits Fall 99 say “Mark the 12th stitch and from the right side, k2tog, knit marked st, ssk.” I think those directions are for a plain sleeve with no cable because if there is a cable, the decreases would be inside it, which is clearly not what is shown in the photos. The photos show the number of garter stitches on either side of the cable decreasing. I decreased next to the purl stitch by the center cable.

I ended the sleeves after row 10 of the cable pattern with 52 stitches. I think I could have decreased more rapidly, given the circumference of the upper arms. I did 5 K3TOG across the cable when doing the I-cord castoff to bring the cable together.

The button band has 6 ridges with the one-row horizontal buttonhole from the Vogue Knitting book after the 3rd ridge.

The I-cord castoff and seam joins look nice and neat.

This yarn is a little slippery for steeks. I cut the first one back to two stitches but the edge looked sloppy as I stitched it down, so I’m not trimming the rest of them, just tucking the cut ends underneath before overcasting them. That makes the steeks a bit bulky but it’s a fairly bulky sweater anyway so I think they look OK.

Used Triskele 5/8” buttons by TierraCast from ButtonJones shop on Etsy.