Stars in my eyes...

Warning: Knitting during the Oscars can be hazardous to your WIP.

Hi, folks. My CPH has been in production since September, but by Sunday night, I was confident that both sleeves would be done by the end of the 3-hour marathon that is the Oscars. Heh, heh, I thought to myself, by the time I know Best Picture, I'll have only the front ribbing to pick up and knit, the sleeves to seam in place, the final blocking, and, at last, Fin.

Not so fast. Triumphantly holding up the bound off sleeves around midnight, I knew who'd won each and every Oscar, who was currently "seeing" Ben Affleck, and why so many people have commented that CPH sleeves can be a bit snug. For 3 star-studded hours I had kept gauge, I had followed the pattern correctly, and I had knit two too-little sleeves. What had gone wrong? How had I ended up with a Razzie? (Two Razzies, actually.)

Well, I'd been so focused on the small screen that I never once compared what I was knitting with what I'd already knit. Now, thanks to Jenna Wilson's wonderfully detailed articles on sleeves in "Thinking Beyond the Pattern" on Knitty.com, I know that my sleeve caps don't match my armscyes. So after I hit "Publish Post," I'll be pulling out the stitches above the decrease rows and modifying the pattern to make the sleeve caps a little wider and a little longer to increase their overall perimeter. Be kind, rewind, as they say in the movie biz.

Viking Version Cables

Hi!

I've started a CPH with a cable substitution. Here is the beginning of the back. Instructions are available on LisaKayKnits.

Happy Knitting!
Lisa Kay

Hood?

I am so not in love with this thing anymore. I had a decent enough time making the pieces, I just knew something was going to go wrong once I put it all together. I have no idea what I'm doing with the hood. I just don't see where I'm supposed to start picking things up from - from holder to neck to holder, and so on - how is that even possible? I started thinking that I start from the small number of stitches on a holder at the very edge of the front panels. But there are WAY more than 11 sts between that and the back panel holder. I have no idea how to approach this and turn it into something that doesn't look so sloppy. If anyone can give me a basic walkthrough, I'd be very grateful!

~ My CPH ~

I just realized that I hadn't let you all know that I finally started my CPH. ;D Here is a pic of the left front. I've finished it and the back, now to get motivated to start the right front. LOL

Yarn ~ Cascade 220 Ruby

Dawn ;)
Simplified Life

Moving right along

I cast on last Friday and I'm moving right along. I started the Left Front yesterday. I'm planning ot make a hoodless CPH. Has anyone else done this?


Happy Knitting! Bobbi

Understanding the cable charts

I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out the cable charts, as I've just started the back. So for my size (36") I knit 14, work row 1 of A, k10, row one of B, k10, row one C, k14. Buuuut... What's row 1? I can normally read cable charts well (I survived Knitty's Mariah) but I don't get this one. I thought row one might be the one where the cable is, but I can't tell because the numbers aren't lined up with the boxes. Also, what's with the two plain rows below it?

Furthermore, how many rows does this thing repeat for? The pattern only specifies two, but the charts are numbered to 9. But there's more than 9 rows on the charts. Do I work from 1-9 and start over, work from 1-the top of the picture and start over, or work from 1- the top and then do the two unnumbered rows below it?

Thanks for any clarification you can offer. I'll be making this in Plymouth Galway Paint, in a bunch of reds.

Large Sizes Use How Much Yarn?

Hi all. I'm Jonna and I'm just now joining the CPH KAL. I have two questions relating to knitting the large size hoodie.
First, for the 52" size, the yarn requirements are almost 3,000 yards and this seems like a really large amount. On Knitting Daily, as an answer to someone in the comment section (which day?), Lisa Shroyer said, basically, you need that much yarn to cover us 'big' folks. But on other cardigans I've looked at in the larger sizes, the amount is closer to 2,000 yards. I could even see adding another 500 for the hood but.... so has anyone done these larger sizes and did you actually use the yardage the pattern suggests.
My second question is about the sleeves. I noticed a difference between sleeve shapes in the schematic and I was thinking about doing a 52" bottom but a 48" top. There seems to be more of a slope on the larger size and the difference in inches spanned along the top is double!
Anyway, I really appreciate any help anyone can give me before I start. But I'm so excited to get going that I may just buy the large amount of yarn and work out the sleeves later.