Today's progress on the Celtic Dreams sweater

[kniteracy]

Celtic Dreams: Complete pattern cycle The front and back of the jumper have a 24-row pattern cycle. I've completed one! As usual with cable patterns, once it got into my fingers, things went much faster, though it's still taking awhile to knit each pattern row. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get my camera to behave well enough, so the photograph is a little blurry, and you can't see the incredible relief in which the patterns are revealed. I hope to take some better pictures tomorrow. The pattern asks you to knit down only 10 inches on the back side (which this is), and the end of this patter cycle puts me at almost exactly five inches. Once I've reached that length, it's time to pick up stitches for the back.

Comments

[rms-butterfly.livejournal.com]

That is so beautiful! I can't imagine ever knitting something that complex. With cables, even! You have such amazing skills w/knitting (yeah, I know, you're a teacher, of course you'd have great skills) I'm only about 2 years into knitting, and seeing something so complex that you've already made such progress with is just amazing to me. *hugs* and I hope the rest of the sweater goes as well.

[telynor.livejournal.com]

One of the main reasons I worked so hard at learning to knit (and it took me years to find a method that worked for me, btw) was that I desperately wanted to make cableknits. I had tried to produce the effect with crochet, and although you can cross stitches in crochet, you just don't create the same kind of fabric that you do when you're knitting.

Honest, cables at their core are really not that difficult. If you can drop a stitch off your needle (and I know you can!), you can knit a cable.

Here is the simplest cable you can knit, often called a "twist".

Knit 2 stitches together, but don't take them off the needle. Go back and knit the first stitch (the one closest to the tip of the needle) again, then drop them off the needle. Do that every two or three rows/rounds, and you'll have a small, stretchy cable.

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

I'm currently working on a cable project, and I take so long to do the cable rows that it's painful. 20 minutes to do non-cable rows, 30 to do the cable rows. (It's a multiple hundreds of stitches blanket knit all one piece.)

I need to finish this, and soon, but I hate working on it. Sad, seeing as how it's a wedding gift. For a wedding that happened a few years ago.

That said, I love the look of the pattern you are doing, and I want one. So I might have to bite the bullet and do the cables. Or maybe I'll just stick to lace, which works much better in my hands.

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! Pretty!

{is awed}

Teddy

[telynor.livejournal.com]

Here is a link to a photo of the finished jumper.

http://www.handknitting.com/product_p/bbr-bbr05.htm

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

Nice - prettier in purple, but still nice.

Teddy