My Little Turkey

One of the most intriguing things about a project is that sometimes your knitting tension will change up on you while you're sleeping. One day, you're loose as a goose. The Next: right on...

Case in Point: the Sweater Fronts of the Shazam Cardi! The first piece I knit on this sweater is the Right Front, shown on the left above. When I set these side by side to see my progress, I immediately noticed that my feature cable, the Chain Cable, was rather loose and directional on the Right piece. AND. it has a left-leaning tilt.

The Back Piece and Left Front had even patterning. What the ---?

The only explanation I can come up with is that, over the life of a project One Hits Their Stride, so to speak. The first piece was like ONE GIANT SWATCH! And should be treated as such - good practice, but it took that outing for me to develop the SKILL needed to make all these patterns look their best.

So Off to the Frog Farm it goes - I think I'll save the bottom cabled rib to use on a sleeve - they actually start off with the same stitch count :)

The interesting thing?

On the Back and Left Front, I quit using a cable needle for any of the cables.

read the Complete Notes for SHAZAM here...

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