Cable Kick

I'm on a big cable kick lately.  A couple weeks ago I started an Aran sweater for the husband, using some charcoal-colored wool that I bought at Rhinebeck.  I can't remember the name... something like Chaco?  Anyway, I'm designing this Aran myself... here is the main cable.  I found this cable in Alice Starmore's Aran Knitting, and have been wanting to use it in a sweater for years.

But a heavily cabled, husband-sized sweater takes a wicked long time to knit!  And my hands were cold while I was doing a work-related task in a cold vestibule recently, so I decided to make some fingerless mittens as a break from the sweater.

Sorry for the crappy picture (click for bigger).  I'll probably publish this pattern, so I'll be taking more photos later.  The cable I used in this mitten is a little bit tricky - every 10 rows you have a maneuver that requires two cable needles (or at least one even if, like me, you usually cable without a cable needle).  It's a fun little challenge.

I also have in mind another cable hat in the same style as Charleston, and have a few cabled designs that I need to write up patterns for.  If summer is all about lace for me, apparently fall/winter is all cables, all the time.

Comments

[Danielle]

Cable gymnastics, huh?? I like the mitts and the motif for the sweater...

[Beth S.]

Pretty! :-) I am very confused about the multiple cable needles, though. I know there are a few like that in Cables Untangled too, but I just don't "get" how it works.

[The Feminist Mafia]

Beautiful, as always. And as usual, I'm drooling. Must.resist. At least for the moment.