Thebes and I were talking about the next sweater I’ll knit for him. He asked for a cabled sweater. I wasn’t finding any patterns that I liked and am thinking of going with Elizabeth Zimmerman’s percentage system to do a sweater. But what kind of cables to do? I looked on Etsy and found this groovy cable book from the ’70s:

I signed up and bought it. This was my first Etsy purchase. It turned out great. I even got a little handwritten note. The seller is Vintage Necessities and her Etsy page can be found here.