If you are enchanted by the texture of knitted cables, the methods described in this collection will help you to add cables to your projects without any issues.
Assia Brill came up with an amazing way to make knitted cables more prominent and textured. But this approach is not limited only to the regular crossed cables formed by knit stitches. We can also apply this method to travelling cables that are built by knit and purl stitches. We do it by using “ghost” […]
Some knitting mistakes are barely noticeable and we can safely leave them hidden in the project. Missed and mis-crossed cables do not belong to that category. These mistakes are far from being invisible. They are staring right at us no matter whether the cable is in the very centre of the project or at its
Cables are gorgeous. We like them because they add a fantastic texture to our projects. But if we could make the cables even more textured, that would bring them to a whole new level of gorgeousness. A simple and ingeniously clever High-Relief Cables method developed by Assia Brill allows us to do just that. Assia
We often see these decreases at the armholes of designer sweaters and cardigans, but they look equally well on hand-knitted projects, especially along the raglan lines. It seems that the fabric was slightly pinched in spots where we use cable decreases to shape our knits. This effect adds a subtle detail that shows that this
Cables make any project beautiful. Colour cables make it exquisite. There are several ways to make two-colour cables. In this tutorial, we’ll discuss one of the easiest of them – the one that does not involve multiple balls of yarn and twisting the strands every time we change colours. I learned this method from a
We’ve already discussed several ways to make cables without a cable needle. I’ve been using the third way described in that tutorial for years because it is the fastest and the simplest way to cross stitches. But this method has a few downsides – it works best when we hold the working yarn in our
Whether you know them as two-stitch cables, 1×1 cables, crossed stitches or twisted cables, these little design elements are perfect for forming all kinds of geometric patterns, like the ones used in the gorgeous Japanese stitch patterns. Depending on the pattern, the mini-cables with stitches crossed to the left are called “cross two left” (C2L),
Even though knitting cables could seem intimidating, it is, in fact, a very easy knitting technique. The only difficulty in knitting cables is to know in which row or round we should cross the stitches to create the beautiful cable texture. If we are not consistent, the segments between cables will be of different length
If you like cables (who doesn’t? :-)) and you use them in scarves, cowls and blankets, chances are you are secretly hoping that the wind won’t flip the ends of your scarf, that the cowl always stays with only the right side of the work visible, and the guests praising your gorgeous cabled blanket won’t
It’s not that there is something wrong with cable needles. No. They are helpful little gadgets that make cabling safe and pretty straightforward. But, a cable needle can easily get dropped, lost, left at home or some other place that is not easily accessible at the very moment when you need to make a cable.
