And it is finished! This worked up quickly - one week from cast on to bind off, and it was a lot of fun to knit. And the fit is perfect - it actually looks better on me than it does on my dressmaker dummy. The yarn is super soft, so it feels great against the skin, and it looks great as a top without anything underneath it. I think I will pair it with a nice shawl (I have oodles to choose from). For the bottom I just continued the ribbing as established by the cable pattern, working the called for 4.5 cm before binding off in pattern. I did not go down a needle size for the bottom ribbing.
When I’m knitting cables I’m always a little bit paranoid about screwing up a cable - crossing it the wrong way, but I didn’t have any problems with that until I got to the very end. I had paused and was admiring the colors when I spotted the mistake.
I was already pretty far past it, so I marked it and figured I could fix it when I came around to that spot again. It was an easy fix.
I just dropped the stitches down, crossed the cable the correct way and picked the stitches back up using a couple of small crochet hooks that are made for fixing mistakes.
Now that I know it fits I can cast on another using this gorgeous set of the same yarn base. The colorway is The Garnet Amaryllis.
Pattern: Cassie Slipover by Sarah Kaub
Yarn: Sundara Yarn Extra Fine Aran Merino
Needle: US 7 (4.5 mm) and US 6 (4.0 mm)
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