Saturday - November 10, 2007

Actual progress! 

 I cast on, paying attention to my gauge swatch, last night before going to dinner.  I ended up using the needles the pattern calls for, not the ones I'd used, so it was actually good that I ripped out so many times.  

Here's what I have from working on it so far:

I'd forgotten how much I love cables.  There's something so wonderful about the calm reordering of the stitches into the patterns.  I'm getting my eye for reading cables back as well, which is nice.  

Additionally, after working with lace, socks, and sweaters in the round, it's nice to have something where I can make a good-sized chunk of visible progress.  

I had started regraphing the graphs into one huge sixty stitch repeat, since there are two of four rows, one (or two, depending on how you count) of twelve rows, and one of twenty.  Instead, though, I just went and got an extra stitch counter, so I'm keeping track of the four and twelve on one and the twenty on the other.  It makes life a lot easier.  

I fiddled with the RSS feed, and I hope that things are working better now.