Recently in Top-Down Mirrored Cable Category

It seems my humble Mirabella sock pattern has found its way into Ravelry, and I've gotten a few requests for it. I've taken it down in the meantime, to *finally* revise the instructions for yarn-over short rows. I'll put the pattern back up, as a post, by this weekend. My apologies. I've posted the pattern here, with corrections made.

Here are some snippets of quilt number two. Warm chocolate brown in a fabric goes really well with just about anything. In this case, all the colorways of Amy Butler's Bliss collection.

There has been knitting. Reading Lori's post on frogging encouraged me to look at one of my oldest projects and assess my progress, or lack thereof. I looked long and hard, and finally decided that even though it was cables, and knit top-down with set-in sleeves, it was turning into the sort of project that one finishes for the sake of finishing, not for wearing. And I'd hate to waste all that fluffy green yarn on a crap project.

So I frogged it.

Said fluffy green yarn is now working up into another top-down sweater with cables. But this time? This time, I like it. Third time's the charm!

Links:
◊ There's a statistic that 40% of food produced in the U.S. is wasted, for such silly reasons as "it's ugly". Isn't that terrible? Wasted Food is an informative site on food waste.
◊ YouTube has all sorts of dog clips. These two are fascinating: "amazing dog" and "one-sided dog".
◊ Lively Grey: about color.
◊ A kids' sushi rolling machine.
◊ Via Kottke, a tale of Oscar the Cat.
◊ Everyone's heard about lolcats.

I'm with Jared on this: screw the summer! I'm having a sweater moment. Or maybe it's a sweater year.

It's top-down construction, but with a cable pattern that wraps around the body. With 12 stitches per cable, though, I'm using one of my #5 Denise needles as a stitch holder. The yarn is Rowan Kid Soft, from a failed, too, too big sweater from last year. Yes, I'm one of the weird ones, the ones who will frog whole sweaters and knit something else. I can't waste good yarn. Besides, it's green.

A yarn order was delayed; a good thing, because it forced me to sit down and calculate cable placement. The main difference with this top-down is that I'm knitting the front and back separately and joining them at the underarm. Then I'll backstitch the shoulders together. This sweater will need seams to support the bulky cable pattern.

Knitworthy: Yeah, Emily and her Amazing Lace teammates. Yep, *all* of them.

Blogworthy:
◊ Images within images. Very, very neato. This was created in conjunction with Getty Images, and there's a few of them here. I wonder if there's some kind of algorithm behind all of it, and pulls images from a database.
◊ My newest site of good links, Neatorama. Check out these cool-ass pumpkins and the heart cloud!
◊ Dutch shoplifters, beware! This was pretty funny.
◊ Happy 666!