I love the texture of this, even if the cabling slows it down somewhat. It also makes the blanket denser and warmer: it takes, on average, about a third more yarn to make, say, a cabled Irish-type sweater than a plain, flat one–and that is why cheaper versions tend to leave the back boring straight-up stockinette stitch.
Anyway.
Seven repeats across plus the edging; the fifth 40-row vertical repeat is nearly done.
I had planned to do seven but may have enough yarn for eight.
And I wonder: why is it always easier to put more hours of a day into a project as it gets further along than at the beginning? Four and a half rows make an inch no matter where that inch is.
Actually, that’s not entirely true: as you add more wool and more weight, it seems to take more like four rows to get that inch to appear.
