Throwback Knit

In doing some re-organizing in my apartment this past week I came across this long lost FO. The Cable Eight top from Interweave Knits, Spring 2005 (ravelry link). It's funny what you can and cannot remember about your old knits. Like I can't remember working those cables or weaving in the last yarn but I can remember getting the yarn it called for at my new-to-me LYS. I can remember knitting this on my flight to Honduras that summer and I remember having to crochet the borders of the arm openings thinking there was no way I was going to get that right but being so happy and proud of myself that I did.

It was one of the first actual garment pieces I made and therefore went blindly into trusting the yarn and directions. I even got the same color as the modeled piece in the magazine. As a new knitter you do that, you get each piece the exact same because in some way you think it will help in the success of getting that "perfect FO".

I probably have worn this top about 3 times since 05. The tank itself is a little on the heavy side which is what doubling the cotton worsted weight will do. If I knit it again I may opt to just use a bulkier cotton like the Blue Sky.

Oh and if you think I stopped at just making one of the Bumble Up scarves, guess again. My AC has been cranked in order for me to whip out another!

I just loves my summer knitting.

7 thoughts on “Throwback Knit”

Denise says:

June 27, 2009 at 7:08 pm

I made this one too, probably around the same time you did. I used a wool/cotton combo, and it was so heavy I felt like I was wearing chain mail. I frogged it after wearing it twice!

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Gudrun says:

June 28, 2009 at 10:18 am