The sweater has been received and now I can unveil it's squishy, cabled goodness.

Remember the summer of 2008? When I did a little fundraiser for the Red Cross and gave away knitted objects as prizes? This is the last one. I'm embarrassed that it took me so long, but I really had trouble finding a pattern I liked. Emily wanted a sweater for her little boy, Jackson. Jackson is a manly little baby and could seriously be a child model. He is just gorgeous.

I found the pattern in Zoe Moeller's Adorable Knits for Tots. I started in August and finished just last weekend. To my utter horror, there was pattern errata listed AFTER I started the sweater, which sparked my tantrum last week. More about that in a minute. For now, bask in the glow of this darling little sweater.

Is it not the wee-est, most darling little sweater? Despite its size (2 years), it took a lot of work. There are 10 cable crosses in almost every row, and the sides and the bulk of the sleeves are seed stitch. I used Berroco Pure Merino (on closeout from Webs!), which was really, really nice to work with. It consists of several plies, and the yarn kept unravelling while I was seaming, but that was really the only problem.

So let's talk errata.

See the large center cable? That's where the errata lies. The cable is apparently supposed to be symmetrical, but the pattern is written so that there are two left twists followed by a right twist. A close-up:

You would think I would have thought this odd. And I did. But there were no good pictures of the sweater in the book (which I borrowed from the library), and it was only when I was knitting the second sleeve that I realized something was off. Way off. I assumed that the pattern and picture were different but never thought about the presence of errata. It wouldn't have mattered - I'd been working on the thing for months and was almost done. After I finished, I checked out some other versions on Ravelry and noticed that most of them looked like the picture in the book. ERRATA!

I ran down the stairs, yelling that I was going to cut someone, and then proceeded to lecture Justin about the perils of publishing a knitting book too quickly. My high horse and I eventually tired and went to bed in a snit.

The upside is that the sweater is still just as adorable as can be, and hopefully Jackson's mom is too charmed by the little man-ness of it to notice any asymmetry. Right?