Mmmmmmm... black cables

When I first started knitting last November people said not to learn to knit with black yarn. And I did anyway. My first two FOs were black yarn. And there have been quite a few more since.

When the thought of cables first crossed my mind, everyone said only do cables in light colored yarn. But why should I listen when I haven't yet about anything else?

I've still not photographed my modified Natalya's in action, but I did finish the matching headband today, and snapped a few photos of it pre-grafting seaming. We'll get to that momentarily.



Why yes, those are black cables.



And oh look... more black cables. And I appear to be making a Rogue with black yarn as well (though that is on hold for now, I am *still* waffling on my yarn choice).

Anyway. The headband was interesting. No problems with it until I picked up the beginning stitches and removed the provisional cast on. I somehow seriously borked the pick-up, ended up with two too few stitches and four really tangled up ones. After an hour or so of trying to figure out what was what I decided to instead pick up a new row a few above this one (and thus pick out every stitch up to that point one by one), knit a few extras onto the end and work from there. My first attempt at grafting in pattern was going fine until I realized the cables didn't match up (too many non-cable rows between them), so I ripped back and added two more rows, one with a cable twist. Second grafting attempt... couldn't count apparently because all was fine until the halfway mark where I knitted a purl and purled a knit. Ripped back again. Gave up on grafting, did a three-needle bind-off, forgot to bind off while doing it though. D'oh! So I bound off after that with just barely enough yarn left to weave in. At least I can tell where the center back is, what with the not-so-pretty seam there. Good thing it'll be hiding under my hair when I wear it.

And just because I've yet to post a photo of myself here in my blog, and I have one that I actually almost like from Halloween, and it does relate to knitting in that I am wearing wool roving dread falls in it...