the gable & the cable

The gable:

Cyndy is to be thanked for the title to today’s post. Very clever. In answer to the question, ‘what is it’, IT is a bump out, storage for
the tractors and maybe a car. Above
there will be more storage. It is really
a royal pain and much added work in the winter, to have to dig the tractor out
before you can plug in it in to preheat the engine, and eventually start it up
and dig or blow yourself out. The plan
is that now we can slide open the barn door (don’t laugh yourself silly on that
naïve thought, Anne) and drive out blowing the path open in front… um..
behind.. (well, the snowblower is located on the rear PTO which means you back
up to blow) as you go. That is the plan. It would be nice to have a car in there for
the same reason, don’t you think.

The cable:

As is often the case, when I went to look for the yarn
needed to finish a sweater I have on the needles, I found I had left it stored
elsewhere. What I did find as I went
through my stash bins was about 1200 or so yards of handspun Shetland in a
nearly worsted weight. It is rather
roughly spun. No excuse, I did it a
couple years back and I don’t know why chose to spin it that way. I went through all my magazines, some books
and spent some time online. I came up with this pattern, the Taconic
V-neck. It wasn’t anything on my
list but  swatched perfectly so I went ahead and I downloaded the
pattern. C has been out of town for the
past week. That gave me the quiet
evening time needed to get the cabled front down. I’ve got less than 6” to go. The back and sleeves are mindless
stockinette. I have enjoyed this knit so
far. I did have to run down to the shop
early the other morning and make myself a little cable needle. Luckily, I could.