Tiny Cables

My newest project is, what else, armwarmers. I had to put ye olde giant intarsia scarf down (see Adventures in Intarsia) because the constant twisting of yarns was getting on my nerves, as was the whole having three balls of yarn hanging off my needles thing. It's coming along. I think its about twice the size it was when I posted that photograph! The drape on that fabric is really amazing. The yarn itself behaves sort of like a boucle (although the thick/thin frequency is regular), and the needles I'm using are on the large end of the gauge. I'll post a picture later, since this post is about something entirely different...

Cables! This yarn is a bit dark, but I think you can see the bumps in this photograph. This is a beautiful wool, in variegated purples. I'm working on armwarmer number two right now. I made up six colums of cable "o"'s. There are ten rows of them in all, with an "x" between the fifth and sixth "o" pattern (does anyone know if there is a technical name for this?). I only used four stitches for each cable, so to form the pattern, I had to split individual stitches, which was kind of a pain. But now that it's almost over, I can pretend like it never happened. Only nine more o's to go!

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