Update: Big damn sweater

The continuing adventures of the big damn Washbourne.

After several days, I am one skein of yarn in.  And it only took casting on 3 times! So far, I have the bottom ribbing done and 5 rows of the pattern.  I might be able to elk out one more row with the amount of yarn I have left, but rather than have to stop mid-row, I'm stopping here for the rest of the work day.

Normal sized mechanical pencil for scale

There are definitely errors that knitters will be able to notice, and J said he could see where the pattern is different but not how I screwed up, but I decided it wasn't a big enough deal to have to rip back out.

The start of the central cable

Twisted rib?  Not my friend.  Since I finally got the gauge to work out, I'm not nearly as worried about this fitting properly (yarn held as double, size 10.5 needles) as I was, however I know the arm holes and sleeves are going to require some more editing to make work properly.  I've not even started thinking about the sleeves.  Oh darn, I'll have to spend large amounts of time watching Firefly when I get there.

I'm going to start stringing lifelines every 20 rows or so.  I've got the first one about 2 rows ago.  I'm thinking I'm going to leave them in place until everything is finished.

The longer cables for my circulars are making this much easier.  I went ahead and ordered the 60 inch length last week which is almost twice as long as what I was using.  I can now hold it up to J for sizing guess-timates without it being a huge ordeal.  Also, there's room for my backup row counter.

I'm mostly using "Knit Counter Lite" on my phone for this project.  And this might be enough to convince me to drop the $2.99 for the full version.  As I can link counters together so it keeps track of not only which row of the sweater I'm on, but also which row of the cable pattern.  The only real advantage of having the full version is the ability to have multiple projects going at once.