Here is "Forbes Forest," finished and blocked —
The pattern is fairly simple for cabling, and easily memorized. It was nice to just breeze along the wrong side working "as presented" (that is, knitting the Ks and purling the Ps). I did have a little trouble keeping interested, as I’ve said before, but I’m happy with the way it turned out.
The Jaeger is very pleasant to work with, and softened even more with just the simple rinse I gave it. The scarf does still curl in at the edges a bit, just inside the garter stitch border.
The color is off a shade or so in these close-ups — it’s a pine-y loden green, deeper and more "forest-y" than the rather mossy original.
(Lady looked very pretty with her heliotrope and purple against the loden. My favorite train layouts have a lot of S-curves, as I love the motions of the trains as they wind, so this part of the cable has a special appeal to me!)
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