After much focused, earnest effort at knitting the cable section of the Tangled Yoke cardigan I took a hard look at what a mess the whole thing was becoming, then took a hard right & high-tailed it out of Dodge. Those cables can suck it, seriously.
I first discovered that I didn't know how to read a cable chart properly, and that helped enormously. However, even once I was following the chart as written, I kept screwing up. "Un"-knitting cables is a serious beating, and after you knit then un-knit/frog, whichever the case may be, the same 5-7 rows close to ten times you figure you may as well come up with a plan B. Plan A was a fool's errand. There is a reason those cables look like thorny brambles; they want blood. MAYBE I will attempt this sweater as written some other time, but for now I will be satisfied instead with a simple eyelet pattern to take the place of the cables.
