I learned how to cable
Thank you Debbie Stoller!
Am I still a beginner? I guess until I intarsia. I use protection though, so probably that'll never happen ;-P
I tried knittinghelp.com, a favorite site, but they didn't really have much there... and all kinds of books and magazines which had cursory explanations... I was trying to learn by making a cabled necklace out of my fuschia silk... and I'm doing it! I've ripped back twice so far and need to go to bed. Freakin steroids...
Yay cables! Wendy and Suzy, you were right, they are easy--I just couldn't figure out at first if you were supposed to knit off the cable needle and on to the reg needle, and then if you were supposed to drop the cable needle till later. NOTHING said anything about that until good 'ole SNB...
Oh, and Wendy I did make ones too. Thank you for your patience! I hope to get back to the dropped v tee and do them tomorrow, back permitting. I did pick up and knit one sleeve of that, have the underarm stitches picked up ready to knit for the second sleeve, and then if I can finish the bottom, dare I suggest I might finish it before weather turns frigid?
OTOH I am NOT loving Melissa Leapman's cool crochet book. If the hot knits has as many errors, I may toss that one across the room too--so far I've tried a couple patterns mutliple times, and she has NO website (how dare she!) with errata, and I am frustrated. I just want to make a freakin stole to put across me while I annoy dh by knitting in bed, is that so rough? I bought this STUPID yarn that SUCKS to work with but it's really, really soft (bad schnauzer yarn) and did I mention it was cheap? JoAnn's angel hair. I wouldn't recommend it, but for a wool-allergic like myself, it really feels nice.
Oh, heads-up for November... I'll be at nanowrimo.org if you need me.