Finished!

It's taken me a while, and it kinda makes me look like a linebacker, but my CPH is off the needles! You can read more about it here, but here are the main specs:

Yarn: Black Water Abbey 2-ply worsted weight in Pippin - 7 skeins
Needles: US 7 and 8 Addi 24" circs
Size: 48"
Mods: Knit the band as one piece, omitted buttons
Cast on: March 2007 Finished: August 2007

Except for my yarn choice, this project was a great knit. Unfortunately, the BWA two-ply is very tightly spun, and very rustic, and the two things combined 1) really hurt my hands and 2) made my cable tension wonky, resulting in unseemly looseness. (I tried wrapping stitches and Ktbls to tighten things up, to no avail.) But I love the pattern, and if I ever made another one would use a more forgiving yarn.

Thanks for hosting this great KAL. Through it I've made new friends and learned some new knitting tricks, too. Happy knitting, everyone!

MY CPH

I am using Cascade 220, Burnt Orange, #7824 thank you for looking

New!

Hello, I'm new here :-) I've been working away at my CPH this week and have completed the back and am starting up the first front.

I short rowed my shoulders for the very first time after hearing about it here, wow, I really like how they turned out.

I am hoping to get both fronts finished this week, will have to see how fast I knit.

My yarn is Briggs and Little Heritage. It's very sturdy. I mean I can just pull the needle out of the cables and rearrange the stitches and slip them back on in the right order and the yarn doesn't slip at all. Definitely outerwear this yarn, but my swatch did soften up after washing so it won't be to stiff to wear comfortably.

Hello All!

I'm new to this KAL and I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Lauren and I'm thoroughly addicted to knitting! (Aren't we all? ) Please excuse the pictureless post, as I am at my mother's and am unable to upload any right now. Rest assured I am knitting away every moment I get. I am about 1/4 into the project, about 3 cable repeats away from shaping the sleeve caps. I chose to knit the body in one piece in attempt to avoid lots of seaming (hate it). I'm also planning on knitting the sleeves in the round, too. I'm using some Paton's Classic that I had lying around in a nice tangy green. The only mod I'm planning is lengthing the body a couple of inches to accomodate my freakishly long torso.

Anyhow, I am so happy to be here, knitting this fabulous pattern! Pictures soon!

-Lauren J.

Almost Home

Okay, I am almost done with my CPH. I'm about 75% done with my last sleeve and I need a little advice for the next bit.

1. I knit the body in one piece and I have the hood and button bands done, too. Should I block the sweater and sleeves before or after I put them together?

2. Any recommendations on how to seam the sleeves to the body and make it look great? I'm terrible at seaming and I could use any help you've got.

Thank you! :)

CPH

Hi all, I am working on the CPH in size 48". I have one sleeve to go. Modifications I made are:

- used Rowan Scottish Tweed Aran (bit harsh on the fingers, like knitting with a pot scourer!) in a dark tweedy blue (sort of French navy)

- made it a bit longer - 15"

- adjusted sleeve cap as my row gauge is more than the Tahki one

- used 4.5mm needles for the rib on the fronts and back as it seemed a bit tight. used 4mm for sleeves.

Here is a pic.

I need advice please - do you block before joining the shoulders for the hood and button bands? I think I have to soak this as it's so stiff I need to soften it up! But if I do this the hood and button bands will be a different texture so guess I need to soak them to at the end? Advice gratefully received!

(I'll be honest with you, I'll be glad when this is done, knitting on dark yarn is a bit debilitating after a while!!)

Finished!

It's done!!! Yay! The details:

Start Date: May 2, 2007
End Date: July 29, 2007

4 skeins of Araucania Nature Wool in teal

Mods: I knit the button band in one piece and hated it. The natural variegation of the yarn flipped from being horizontal to vertical on the ribbing for button band and it broke the sweater up and made a very flattering piece very unflattering. So I ripped out the button band (ripping 312 bound off stitches IS NOT FUN). Re-Knit the ribbing on the hood and then knit 2 pieces 10 stitches (7 in stockinette, 3 in garter to stop it from rolling). I also knit a one row button hole vs. the 2 row that was called for in the pattern.