I’m proud to present my first pattern in-print, Multnomah Falls.  Here’s a link to the preview on the Yarn Forward website, where you can see one of the amazing photographs from the magazine.  Here’s the Ravelry link.

This long-sleeved sweater with alternating cascading waterfall-like cables and dropped stitches has unique construction. The body is worked bottom-up with 1 by 1 ribbing that gracefully leads into meandering flowing cables. The top of the sweater has a square neck with 1 by 1 ribbing along the neckline and the sleeves are knit starting out with matching 1 by 1 ribbing that flows into alternating cascading waterfall cables and dropped stitches. The sleeves are worked bottom-up in the round until the underarm, and are bell-shaped, worked evenly until the upper arm increases. They are then worked back and forth, across the upper back, like a shrug, and grafted together at the center back, after the appropriate stitches are dropped. When binding off stitches for the neckline, armholes, and just before grafting the sleeve join at the center upper back, the center stitch of each reverse stockinette stitch section between cable panels is dropped, creating an open airy garment. The stitches on either side of the dropped stitches are twisted on every round, creating a nice crisp edge on either side of each dropped stitch.

And here are a select few of the 209 photographs R took of me on the beach and in the Eucalyptus forest (plus bonus photos of the dogs!) right off of the beach in Watsonville, just south of Santa Cruz.  My parents happened to be in town just before I had to mail the sweater to the UK, and they thought it would be nice to go to the beach one day with the dogs, so we went.  It was blisteringly hot in the South Bay that day, so it was nice to escape from the heat, but it was freezing cold on the beach, so it really was too much of a change, because we got a late start and by the time we got to the beach, we could see the fog rolling in.  It was super windy, as you can see in many of the photos, and combined with the fog, it made for a brutal damp cold.  We ate our picnic lunch in the shelter of the Eucalyptus grove, took a brisk walk on the beach with the dogs, and took some quick photos.

Here’s my mom attempting to cover up with a tiny towel during lunch. She remembered she also had a blanket in the car at some point during lunch, so she swapped them…

Here are some photos of Helix during lunch. It was very dusty and dust and dead grass clung to him. He’s kind of like a large mobile dust mop…

Here’s my parents’ dog Herta:

And here’s Mojo, looking at me off-screen, standing juuust out of reach…

Here you can see how windy it was, even sheltered by the Eucalyptus…

Here I am twirling around in the Eucalyptus grove…

When we headed to the beach, my mom had Helix’s leash and Herta’s leash and my dad had Mojo and Tek’s leashes. Somehow Helix got very tangled in his leash…

And here are some more photos of Multnomah Falls, on the beach:

I wanted to show that the sweater goes well with both a skirt and jeans, so I changed from my skirt into my jeans on the beach.  R continued to take photos, as he thought this was amusing…

Apparently, my parents’ dog Tek thought this was interesting as well… Here’s a closer look at Tek:

Here I am in jeans on the beach:

I will leave you with a photo of Mojo on the beach:

You can see more photos of Multnomah Falls on flickr here.

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