Started my Ruby last night. I ended up using the light green Vintage for the simple reason that I turned out to not have enough of the purple Ella Rae. The purple would probably be more striking, but this is growing on me. It’s a serious quick knit, due to the cables and lace that repeat every few rows. Short pattern repeats always seem to go by fast for me. Good thing, because I need it by the end of May. I can do this!
The original pattern has knit bobbles centered between cable twists, but I’ve never been a fan of bobbles and definitely don’t want a row of something resembling a bit of anatomy marching down my front. It’s probably just a flaw in my techniques that I have to keep manually popping my bobbles to face the front of the fabric. An inverted bobble is not an attractive thing in a sweater. In the version knit for McGowan-Michael’s website they look lovely, especially in the red yarn. They remind me of knit roses running down a trellis.
The pattern itself is well written, at least as far as I can tell at this point. I’ll let you know how it goes.