"That's Blog-worthy."

Those of you who've met Deborah will be able to hear her say that in your heads. 

She came over to knit yesterday.  First, she shared her guild presentation concerning men and mid 19th century knitting -- fascinating and detailed stuff.  If you can get to the St. Louis Knitter's Guild this weekend to hear it you won't be sorry.  Otherwise, I bet she'll share some of her sinsights with you if you just ask. 

As we spoke about knitting and just stuff, she said those words to me about eleven times.  Ok, already.  I get it.  ; )

Last time we talked I ended with my musings about what to knit next.  I did indeed fall hard for this sweater.  Witness my progress on it in little more than a week.  The pattern is a Kathy Zimmerman pattern, the Premiere Cabled Pullover, from Classic Elite's book Summertime Knits.  What follows are the bullets of blog-worthiness.

• The pattern arises from the cabled ribbing.  Remember when I said I liked that?
• I did the cabled ribbing incorrectly actually.  Zimmerman's directions are fine, I'm just cocky.  There are supposed to be two rows of offset 2x2 ribbing before the 12 rows of ribbing.  Deborah likes it just fine the way it is.  I'm deciding whether to drop them in and do the rest of the sweater as written or to ignore them.
• The yarn is my Sundara Seasons Aran Silk Merino club yarn in the Daffodil colorway.  God almighty this is some nice yarn.  Shiny and soft and beautifully dyed.  The pilling should be minimal as the pattern contains simply reverse stockinette at the friction points.  And, as I'm three rows from finishing the back of the sweater and just breaking into the third skein of eight, I'll have enough.  I can stop sweating and trying to think of ways to acquire more of it.
• I am knitting the yarn comfortably to a much tighter gauge than recommended (an aran weight yarn substituted for a light worsted weight one).  This will alleviate some of the pilling, I hope...
• The cabled lace pattern is a simple twelve-row pattern which was easily memorized.
• Cocky, as usual, have I consistently had to rip back the twelfth row as it is a row of 2x2 ribbing done on a purl row and I always forget to do it.  It is an important row though and part of the genius of this sweater.  The ribbing pulls the pattern rows under, allowing for a super clean transition between lace and cable.  Genius.

There were more, but I forget the rest.  Apparently I was a font of blog-worthy snippets.  I should blog more...