I am ready to cast off the stitches for the saddles and start working the front and back separately, but first I have to do a little deciphering of the pattern. At this point the pattern has me start to work across on the right side, binding off the saddle shoulder stitches as I get to them, but when I get to the other front piece (right front, which is on the left in this picture) I have to start working from the front chart instead of the yoke chart, but that means that I have an extra row, and an extra stitch on the left front (which is on the right in this picture) and I’m still coming to terms with that in my head. I do want to draw attention to the beautiful and elegant construction. There are lots of increases (almost every row) and the pattern uses the ones where you pull up the strand between the stitches and knit or purl in the front or back of the resulting loop. If you do it correctly, using the proper increases in the proper places, you end up with a beautiful line of stitches.
Just look at how the stitches come off of the saddle in a neat line. You can really see it on the wrong side.
Instead of translating the key from the pattern, which is in German, I created my own key using PatternGenius. I just created a blank chart and put in the stitches that I wanted and spit out the PDF of the “pattern” and then just grabbed the key page with the symbols and the description of how to work the stitches. I was not doing them correctly on my first attempt and so I frogged back and started over. I get hung up on the usage of “front” and “back” because it can be relative or it can be absolute. In this case it is relative. Once I figured that out things went great, and if I did slip up (typically because I was tired) I was able to spot it right away and fix it.
Pattern: Cassie Slipover by Sarah Kaub
Yarn: Sundara Yarn Extra Fine Aran Merino
Needle: US 7 (4.5 mm)
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