Cabled Calorimetry (aka: Failorimetry)

On Sunday, 9/28/08, I began to think about a cabled calorimetry – I am sure someone on Ravelry has already figured it out, but I haven’t seen it and I want to give it a shot! I was inspired by the yarn, actually. I knit Sarah the calorimetry in the gray wool-ease chunky but I have a TON of wool-ease chunky in aran, too. I thought the aran version would look a bit, well … huge and white unless it had something to give it a bit of personality, but the brown leather covered buttons I have would look sweet with that color – voila – the need for a cabled calorimetry.

I started with CO 100 sts and planned for 5 cables separated by plain ribs for the center of the headband. I also did 1 more short row than on the calorimetry I made for Sarah (leaving 18 sts outside each of the markers). It was too big in every single direction. Also, a twist on the cables would have happened on the last row so I eliminated it – it just looks dumb. I need to pare this down to between 88 and 92 sts CO and stop the short rows when I have 22 on the outside of each marker – this should fix the sizing and the dumb looking cables.