Among other domestic things I did today (making dinner, cleaning up, dishes, laundry, errands to the bank and post office) I taught myself to knit cables. WooHoo! This is something that I’ve wanted to to for a while, but have never taken the time to figure it out. Today was the day.

For those of you who don’t know the ins and outs of knitting… cables are those rope like ‘stripes’ or ‘ridges’ that you find in sweaters, especially those white, Irish sweaters. The technique was not very hard to figure out, but my fingers needed a bit of practice to get the ‘feel’ of doing it. I’m almost an expert now!

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So that I could practice my technique I decided to knit up a little baby hat. Baby things are fun to knit and make good practice for larger items. And when I finish there is some precious kiddo who gets a nice present!