I screwed up.
No. It's not supposed to look like that. Not at all.
I mis-crossed the centre cable on the Sleeve of my Spring Coat. That's what I get for knitting cable patterns while distracted. Now usually, I'm the type to leave small mistakes where they lie, but this, this is a big mistake, and annoyingly visible. It will bug me. It looks deformed and I hate it.
But I also can't just ladder down and fix it, because there are other cables in the way.
Solution:
This wonderful post on how to darn over screwed up cables, from the Yarn Harlot's Blog.
I'll be doing option number two (aka, the voodoo), as soon as I hit the end of this skein and have some yarn free to do the darning.
Because that is just too ugly for me to be happy with it otherwise.