Cable Swatch

Here's a swatch of the cable that will be on the sweater I'm making. I used a spare skein of Dale Heilo that I had in my stash, knit to the same stockinette gauge as the sweater yarn I'm using. It's still a little bit damp, but even without hard blocking the cable has opened up nicely. I thought charting it would be a real challenge and take a few tries, but I got it right on my first try--crazy, right? Lucky, more like. I did delete what I had originally drafted as the first row. I'm now plotting, in my head, the cable I will use on the sleeves--it will be quite different from the one on the sweater I'm knocking off. I'm envisioning a smaller version of this cable, without the center twist. That sweater has two of what I think are ~12" long 6-stitch and 6-row cables, placed side-by-side with maybe a 3-stitch purl column in between, on each sleeve about midway up (so they start about 5-6" above the wrist and end where the sleeves are joined to the body). Then the designer of that sweater continued the purl column all the way up to the neck opening, which doesn't please me aesthetically for some reason. I'm currently deciding whether to extend the cable I'm envisioning for the full length of the sleeves or not.

Anyway, here it is. Isn't it pretty? I'm especially pleased by the seed stitch bits.