Finished Forecast!

The weather has been perfectly lousy, but the Forecast is clearing up!



(Yikes. Sorry for the bad pun. Guess that's my specialty.) Anyway, the rain subsided just long enough to get a few photos in beautiful Cobble Hill Park.

Here's the arm. As I mentioned before, I misread the cable chart and therefore knit much looonger cables than the pattern called for. But I liked that it looked less busy and opted to keep it this way. It's Forecast -- now with fewer bobbles!



Here's the back.



And for good measure, a semi-smiling shot.



Now for the details. I used about 3 1/2 skeins of Cascade 220 on size 6 Clover circulars. In terms of modifications, I obviously altered the cable pattern a good deal, accidentally or otherwise. I lengthened the lower border by a few inches and, inspired by Winnie, I started the arm ribbing at the elbows.

Most notably, I redid the button band not once, twice but THRICE. The band looked funky with 10 buttons, so I tried knitting it a little wider by adding a few rows. Forget it. It was still far too many buttons. So I switched to just seven buttons, and that did the trick. At least I think so.

Now for something completely different, I bought a new microwave! I know this is dorky, but isn't it adorable?