Yoke-o Oh No
10 Mar 2005 • Mariah •
I’ve been a good girl, working diligently on Mariah whenever I have knitting time. I’ve finally joined the pieces together at the yoke.
This took me a bit longer than I thought because I had to reknit part of a front panel. It turned out that I didn’t do the ribbing as high as on all my other pieces so I had to rip out all the stocking stitch to correct it. Now the stocking part looks like shit because reknitting with the Elann Peruvian isn’t as nice as knitting in the first place…the yarn has lost much of its loft. And considering it wasn’t too great to begin with…let’s just say I’m putting all my eggs in the blocking basket right now.
The yoke is going smoothly, if endlessly. I know it’s going to seem like nothing is happenening at all until half of the raglan decreases are complete, then the rest is going to fly by.
I wish I had decided to knit this out of something else, so I would still be enjoying the process even after the cabling is complete. The pattern really is very clever and intuitive, and as long as you read through the whole thing before you start you should have smooth sailing.
This is the first sweater on which I have attempted cables, and I was dreading the sleeves. It turned out that the sleeves were my favourite part for a change. I love cables…I’m getting quite clever at them.
I’m using the Peruvian Highland Wool, too, and I hope that the end result will be satisfying. I’m looking at the whole project as a learning experiment: first time with (so many) cables and first time with a yoke like this. Can’t wait to see yours when it’s finished!