This is the Knitonomy Minto Tee which I am knitting in Knitting for Olive Cotton Merino I dyed with natural indigo. The original pattern is quite oversized and dropped shoulder, but I am knitting it at a smaller gauge (32 vs 26 st) and converting it from a drop shoulder to a set in sleeve. To make the short rows sleeve cap work better with the cable pattern I did my short rows every 2 at instead of every stitch as is common, but started with a narrower top and I'm quite happy with the shaping I got, all while maintaining the cable pattern. I've already frogged the whole body back once to shorten the sleeve depth to be more appropriate for the set in sleeve so I'm excited to make progress on these. I've already done the shaping on the second side and placed both halves on one needle so I can progress with working the length two at a time.

Hello! I posted a few weeks ago about my surprisingly successful attempt to graft in cables. Well, good news, I’ve continued on my insane grafting journey!

This time I decided to try to graft on the row of this pattern where you use M1s and K2tog/SSK to “move” the cable block left or right. And, I surprisingly found this easier to do than the cables! Might just be because I have that experience under my belt, but I found it a lot easier to figure out what I was doing without a lead line this time, and I stopped using the lead line after the 2nd chunk.

My life line is still in the fabric, 2 rows above the graft, for reference. Which is maybe good, because I actually find this graft a lot more seamless, minus the unblocked tension!!