In this stressful year, I really need some mindless knitting. To be fair, a complex Aran cabled sweater may not sound like mindless knitting to you. For me, all I am doing is following someone else's pattern. I don't have to write down what I am doing. I don't have to shoot video. All I have to do is follow a chart and happily knit. The sweater is the DNA Pullover by Andrea Cull from the Winter 2019 issue of Interweave Knits. Of course, I'm going to work this in the round. It has advantages. I am happily knitting around and around. I can try on the sweater as I go. I don't have to sew seams at the end. And I don't have to worry as much about gauge issues between my knits and purls (which have somehow gotten worse not better). Those panels of stockinette should be even. Before I cast on the sweater, I needed to make a gauge swatch. What did it tell me? First, I cast on 110 stitches. Yes, that...
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