So much for daily posting...

It´s been too long, again! Life just keeps interfering with blogging...
So since my last post, I´ve finished the collar of interlocking cables,

then, because the bottom end of the sweater looked like this:

all flared out (that happens when you cast on 360 stitches, realize you only need 340 but are too lazy to start over again so you eliminate 20 stitches by k2tog 20 times... fixing it now is taking far more time than if I had fixed it right away). Anyhow, I chopped off about 15 rows, put the stitches on a needle and cast on 340 stitches and knit the ribbing again, this time, a little longer because the body was a tad short to begin with. (Note to self: when you think something is long enough, add another 5 cm!)

So now, that the ribbing is long enough, I have to graft the cabled ribbing to the rest of the body... (knitting down from the top wasn´t an option because that is always half a stitch off!) I surfed the net and found this. It´s a great tutorial and I pretty much got the hang of it. What I didn´t realize is that the stitches on the body and the stitches on the added ribbing form, when grafted, 3 (!!!) rows. So I ended up with this:

So that didn´t turn out so well! Then I took the new ribbing off the thread, ripped out 2 rows (it was a guesstimate) and repeated the procedure. Turns out, 2 rows wasn´t enough. Last night at 11 p.m. I really wasn´t feeling the love for this thing anymore, so I put it aside. So in the next couple of days I will be ripping out another row, putting the 340 stitches back on thread so I can start grafting again.

Now, on to a different matter: apparently, this

is what you get after 7 1/2 hours of knitting on various trains. Compared to it´s mate:

you can see, that it´s not all that far from completion. Had I knit the first 2 hours of the train ride, it would have been finished by the time I got back home but I met an old school friend and we yakked all the way to where I had to get off the train. That was saturday and on sunday I had this:

Ok, that´s enough for one post!