I am ready to start the raglan decreases on my Debbie Bliss Cabled Jacket. This cabling business is so fun! I just hope that I find the fronts and sleeves as entertaining. Thanks to Wendy’s excellent tutorial I have been cabling without a cable needle from the start, for the small cables that is. Unfortunately my tension is too tight for me to use this technique comfortably on the horseshoe cables.

Of course I am too slack to have actually bought a proper cable needle. I am sure if I did have one, and perhaps if I consulted a book as to how to use it, I might find cabling with a third needle a little less awkward. But really cabling without the cable needle rocks, so much quicker and easier, so much less fiddly. Hmm, just blogging about my messy third needle technique has given me a number of ideas that might make it easier, like using a dpn instead of a spare circ, and I think I may be holding the “cable needle” in the wrong spot (with my right hand). Hmm. I think I will have more to say about this after a spot of car knitting this afternoon.

In the meantime here is a photo of the small center cables. They don’t exactly match and I am trying oh so hard to tell myself it doesn’t matter. Lets be clear here, the cables match (or are appropriately mirrored), the problem is with my knitting. The edge of each cable which is closest to the centre of the garment has a different look depending on whether it is the leading edge or the final edge of the cable. And this bothers me. Possibly enough to carefully readjust the tension of the left edge of the right cable on each and every row when I am done. Ugh.