Done! Finito! It’s finally completed! Considering the time it eventually took, I’m pleased with the result. The pattern was easy to follow after sorting out the three stitch variations and working the three of them simultaneously to keep track of the rows in each pattern.
The pattern was easy to follow, especially once I had worked out how to cope with three different patterns, all with different numbers of rows per pattern. The main cable was twenty-four rows, and luckily the other two patterns worked into that number perfectly.
How did I do it?
I used a child’s Primary School exercise book with the wide and narrow lines and going between the red lines, set all the pattern out in their multiples. It worked perfectly.
The yarn was a dream to knit – very soft with plenty of spring. Once I had got into the swing of the pattern, it knitted up very quickly.
Very little that went wrong, apart from a couple of times, one when one of the single cables insisted going the opposite way, the second was when the middle section decided to go walkabout and it too went in the opposite direction so had to be unpicked – somewhere around ten rows before it was noticed. Ouch! But it all turned out fine.
And hopefully, the proud owner of the jumper will have many years of wear – as these handspun jumpers seem to last forever…