the making of a cable knit vest

my first cabled garment!

My final year of college was when I started knitting in earnest. Thanks to my mom’s lessons at age 11, and all those DIY blogs cropping up in the 2010s, I felt confident enough to start knitting things I could wear. One of the things I made was a cabled headband - a project I was surprised I could accomplish with my limited skill set (as pictured on my lovely, willing roommate/model/photographer, lizzie!)

for a while, I was trying to get people to call us by our roommate couple name “lizzania”. needless to say, it did not catch on

I actually haven’t attempted anything cabled since then. I’ve been, frankly, intimidated by the idea of making an entire-ass garment with cables. But as it turns out (like with most knitting/making), once you practice, it’s not all that hard, just something you have to pay careful attention to.

My family took a trip to Ireland last year, and my big request was that we visit the weaving mill Studio Donegal. I brought home 5 skeins of this Irish wool (and some …