Cable Moss Vest
Today is my dear friend Margene’s birthday. Go show her some birthday love please!
As I told you last week, I finished the Cable Moss Vest for Dale. You want to see some pictures?
I’m so proud of this vest. As you may recall, this was originally to have been my Olympic Knitting Project. But after swatching, I realized there was no way I could complete a project of this magnitude during the time frame of the Olympics. So I set it on the back burner for, oh, about a year. Once I got going on this, though, I found that it went pretty quickly.
The fit is perfect. It’s just the right length with just the right amount of ease. Dale has worn it several times already and he says it’s warm and cozy and just what he wanted in a vest. There’s nothing like that kind of praise to warm the heart of a wife and knitter.
Before I started I was quite intimidated by the cables. Truthfully, it was more the cable charts that had me worried. Unlike lace chart and symbols, the cable charts and symbols don’t come easily for me and I had to refer to the charts throughout the entire project. I did color code them, as I showed you in my first post about this project, and that really helped. After the complexity of these cables I feel a lot more confident in my cabling skills.
The technical details:
Pattern: Lisa Lloyd Cable Moss Vest
Yarn: Classic Elite Skye Tweed, 9 balls
Needles: Addi Turbos size 5 and 7
Time: January 4 – February 26, 2007
Now that’s a satisfied man. If only he’d stack that wood.
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It looks FANTASTIC! Perfect. Dale’s too relaxed and cozy to do any stacking. I’d say you have officially conquered cables.
You did it!! I knew you could. It is beautiful and looks so good on Dale.
The vest looks great! i would say the cables are conquered. Funny, I am having the same problem with lace patterns. I can knit complicated cables and I feel like I “know” where they are going,but this lace… have to keep one eye on the chart and one on the needles!
Great color for Dale, too , by the way…
Tell him to stack the wood before the snow this weekend!
🙂
Beautiful job on the vest Carole! It looks great on Dale.
A fabulous knit! Seems you have a very willing model too;) Cable charts do seem more difficult than lace ones, I wonder why that is? I’m sure you could cable your way to anywhere now!
sensational…and it fits wonderfully! Great job. I love Skye Tweed! Perfect combination of pattern and yarn.
Very nice! Too bad about Classic Elite discontinuing that yarn though. It looks very pretty from here.
Very nice looking vest.
The vest looks terrific!
Your idea for color coding the cables was sheer brilliance – I suggested it to my step-daughter (who is knitting a sweater with some fairly complicated cables) and she thought it was one of the smartest ideas ever. And that’s high praise from a teenager! 😉
It looks fabulous! You did such a great job. Have I told you lately how much I love you?
Has Dale considered a career change because he’s one awesome model!
You’re lucky to have a hubby who wears knits; mine will wear hand knit socks, hats, scarves, and mittens, but no sweaters, vests, etc.
Wow wow wow! The pictures! the vest! I’m speechless.
Outstanding! What a great job, Carole! Everything from design to fit to color…it looks fabulous.
What a fantastic job! Glad you’ve conquered cables! Now it’s my turn 🙂
Wow, that is gorgeous Carole! Beautiful knitting!
That’s so gorgeous, Carole. Almost makes me want to knit cables. Almost.
Geez – you just want it all doncha? Satisfied DH PLUS the wood stacked. 🙂
It looks great and what a wonderful job you did with those cables. No wonder he loves it.
You should be proud of yourself – you did an awesome job. And Dale looks pleased as well.
When he’s done stacking that wood, send him down here to Tiverton – we have a bunch that needs it too!!!!!
And may I say it looks even more amazing in person, a work of art!
Dale can work it!
Great vest, Carole, and congratulations for facing the cable fear with great aplomb.
Gorgeous vest there Carole and Dale is quite the looker in his cabled vest. I’d say you conquered cables with this project! I know what you mean a/b cables though, reading them from a chart is more difficult than lace, imo.
He can’t stack the wood wearing that gorgeous vest! 🙂
Congratulations, Carole!! The vest is fabulous and it looks terrific on Dale. I knew you could do it. ; )
Hooray for you! It looks fantastic, and I always get a kick out of how much Dale seems to enjoy the role of model. He looks wonderful in it.
That is stunning!
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it’s warm and cozy and just what he wanted in a vest.
WOW! I could not think of a better compliment!!
How wonderful!
>stack that wood Dale!
FANTASTIC JOB!! It’s beautiful…if only my hubby would wear a sweater vest! Tell Dale he’s a great model…and it wouldn’t have been the same without the wood stacked (gives a very rugdy outdoors feel), but now he has something added to the “Hunny Do List”!
Wow! Out of all the wonderful projects you have shared with us, I think this one is my favorite. (Phil loves sweater vests, so I hope he doesn’t find out!)
The vest is fabulous and what a lovely model!
I still can’t read cable sharts and have to have the pattern written out.
YAY! You conquered the cable! I knew you could do it! The vest is beautiful – and Dale makes a very handsome model :o))
Looks like you have a satisfied customer! A pleased husband is a fine compliment indeed.
Gorgeous vest on a handsome guy. 😉
I dodn’t think I’ve ever seen a more handsome and proud vest model in blogland! Clearly Dale appreciates the love and effort that went into the beautiful vest. Nice job – hire a high school kid to stack the wood!
that’s a great vest, and he looks fantastic in it! Love it! 🙂
Very nice – worth the wait, I’d say.
Poor Dale. Look at him giving you eyes and you want him to stack wood? I think he may be thinking of other aerobic activities, I’m just saying.
Anyway, I don’t feel too sorry for him because he has an absolutely stunningly gorgeous heirloom vest made with love by your own hands. Bravo!
That is one fantastic vest — and a great model, too. Skye Tweed is a gorgeous yarn. I didn’t know they’d discontinued it. Dummies.
That vest looks great and Dale is a great model. I’d say that I’d make one for my hubbo but there is already one unfinished vest for him in the house and I get harassed about it – by my whole extended family – on a regular basis.
I remember that you mentioned something about the vest before Project Spectrum started – and now it is done! and it looks great too! What handsome cables.
The vest is beautiful (and Dale looks mighty smashing modeling it if I do say so 😉 – I am totally with you on the cable charts – I have to literally “write out” the cable charts before I start because just looking at them is tedious for me.
What a gorgeous knit and the fit looks perfect.
The vest looks great. I love that color! And color coding the cables on the chart… Brilliant. You just saved me one heck of a headache.
Nicely done! Both Dale and the vest look terrific!
Beautifully done!
What a gorgeous vest! Gorgeous in the handwork way, not that Dale is (or isn’t) gor…..
Nevermind! Love the vest Carole! It’s fabulous and should enjoy many long cold winters!
That is a lovely cable vest (and modeled well too).
Again, you rock! A pair of socks in a long weekend, and the conquering of cables. What is next for our fearless knitter? 🙂 The vest looks perfect, and it is well suited to a handsome model. He looks very pleased with it, indeed.
Well done! It really did turn out great, Carole. And I remember your initial fear of cables. It’s great.
Oh, and did Dale respond with “The wood IS stacked”?
Gorgeous! Dale looks like a supermodel – all rugged – the perfect poster boy for a cabled vest! Nice work!
ha! look at you with the cables!! it’s awesome looking.
and was dale a model in a former life? look at him mugging for the camera! i’m going to give him shit for that next time i see him.