Another Sweater ALMOST Done!

I’m coming down to the wire on my granddaughter’s sweater, a hoodie, with a simple to do yet looks more complicated cable.

This is a picture of The Casual Hooded Pullover from The Complete Knitting Collection, House of White Birches.

Does anyone know how many cables there are in the whole indrustry?

(pick me, pick me, hand waving wildly from the back of the room).

Well, then, “How many”? (Please, HS english teacher, don’t critique this gross mis-use of conversational marks).

There are as many different types of cables as there are people who knit them!

And I believe that (which is good, since I’m the one who said it). The reason I chose this sweater was because of the hoodie factor, but also, the cable looked a bit more intricate than the typical P4, K4, P4 cable. And I was especially delighted to find that it was a very simple to memorize pattern.

The yarn I chose was a soft yellow (she looks gorgeous in yellow!) and while she’s only 10, she’s a very tall 10, so I made a women’s small, and went down a size in recommended needles.

Hoodies are very popular right now, I’ve been eyeing up the “Wonderful Wallaby” pattern. That one will be the next one I knit, after my fiber festival sweater, after a few baby gifts, after….. well, I’m sure you know.

There are tons of Hoodie Patterns on the net. Tomorrow… I’ll point you toward some of them!

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I’m honestly not totally sure what to say about the Sun King shawl pattern from Ursa Major Knits other than isn’t this cool? You should probably make one.

This modular design is worked in two parts, the “waxing” and “waning” sections. Both pieces are asymmetrical and use the same yarns in different ways to mix up the colors and make it even more interesting.

You can choose to use two contrasting solid yarns, a solid and a gradient or two complimentary gradients for your yarns. And you can use any weight of yarn and whatever gauge you like to make shawls of different sizes. There are also a bunch of different size options (seven, in fact) that take the project from a little collar like design to something more like a scarf to a large shawl that wraps around the neck to keep you warm.

The sample projects use fingering/lace weight yarn, but you can use whatever you have on hand to make your own beautiful version of this shawl. Using lace weight, you’ll need twice as much of one color as the other.

There are lots of yarn suggestions on the pattern page on Ravelry, and I love the color choices the designer made so much I’d definitely be tempted to use the same colors they did (there are a couple of different versions on the pattern page if you want to see how it looks in different sizes and different colors).

I love the little diamond shapes a the edges of the pieces, which add a little more drama to the project, as if it needed more.

I’m still not sure this boils down to anything beyond this project looks really cool and you should probably knit it, but that’s pretty much how I pick all the projects I share, so I guess that’s fine. You can check it out for yourself and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Ursa Major Knits]

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