{"id":1132,"date":"2010-12-01T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2019-06-07T18:08:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T18:08:02","slug":"ks-cabled-sweater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2010\/12\/ks-cabled-sweater\/","title":{"rendered":"K&#8217;s Cabled Sweater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K needed a new winter sweater.<\/p>\n<p>Because he hates crew or turtle necks, it had to be a V-neck. Fortunately, I already had a basic pattern for a child&#8217;s chunky V-neck sweater that I&#8217;ve used many times over the years, so it was just a case of finding the right yarn. He finally settled for some bright blue Wendy Swiftknit that I spotted on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>He also asked for &#8220;some of those twisty things&#8221;  on his sweater &#8212; which turned out to be cables, so I incorporated two mirrored cables into the front &amp; back plus a single cable along the top of each sleeve. I also lengthened the body as he likes his sweaters fairly long.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1132 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2010\/12\/ks-cabled-sweater\/wendy-swiftknit\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/wendy-swiftknit-150x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/wendy-swiftknit-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/wendy-swiftknit-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/wendy-swiftknit.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2010\/12\/ks-cabled-sweater\/k-sweater-small1\/'><img width=\"112\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/k-sweater-small1-112x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/k-sweater-small1-112x150.png 112w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/k-sweater-small1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/k-sweater-small1.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2010\/12\/ks-cabled-sweater\/k-sweater-small2\/'><img width=\"112\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/k-sweater-small2-112x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/k-sweater-small2-112x150.png 112w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/k-sweater-small2-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/k-sweater-small2.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It only took 2 weeks to knit (not helped by the frequent &#8220;Have you finished it yet?&#8221; enquiries) and, if I say so myself, the fit is near perfect. Plus I had enough yarn left to make him a matching hat &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/sageyarn.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/2-row-reversible-scarf.html\">scarf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/childs-cabled-sweater.pdf\">Child&#8217;s Cabled Sweater pattern<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K needed a new winter sweater. Because he hates crew or turtle necks, it had to be a V-neck. Fortunately, I already had a basic pattern for a child&#8217;s chunky V-neck sweater that I&#8217;ve used many times over the years, so it was just a case of finding the right yarn. He finally settled for some bright blue Wendy Swiftknit that I spotted on eBay. He also asked for &#8220;some of those twisty things&#8221; on his sweater &#8212; which turned out to be cables, so I incorporated two mirrored cables into the front &amp; back plus a single cable along&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[99,9],"tags":[70,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}