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Cambridge Cables

I am finally done with this sweater. Yay.

It actually turned out quite well despite all the gnashing of teeth and frogging of stitches.

It's a little longer than I might have chosen, but it's very soft and comfortable.

I whined at length last week about all the annoyances in the pattern, so I won't whine anymore. I did have the sense to shorten the sleeves and also to skip the increases that begin below the elbow. Sorry, I use my hands, so no bell sleeves down to my knuckles.

I used just over 5 1/2 skeins of the Berella Muskoka, which is a superwash merino. Instead of blocking it wet, I decided to spin it in the dryer, to be sure that the fabric snugged up, and it came out plump and cuddly.

I have been going great guns spinning on my Philias Cadorette wheel. I started some merino/tussah on Friday night at spin group, and finished the bobbin yesterday afternoon. I am hoping for a three-ply worsted weight, we'll see what I actually get...

The fiber is an Ashland Bay blend, and the colorway is called 'rose quartz' which is such a perfect name for the rose color, with the white silk and a little bit of blue running through it.

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Update to last week's story: Philias Cadorette died in 1946 at the age of 63. By then, CPWs were not being made and sold anymore, so I wonder what he did in his shop during the last 10 or 15 years of his life. His wife Aurore lived to be over 90, and died in 1976.

Posted by Prudence at January 11, 2010 08:12 AM