One of the things I really like about Natalie Warner’s Assembly Scarf, the first pattern from our Something To Knit Together Winter Edition collection, is how she’s played with scale with the two featured cables. Both are right crossing rope cables, but they’re worked over different numbers of stitches and with different lengths to great effect. If you’ve not knitted cables before, this is an absolutely great project for building you cable confidence. And today, we’re bringing you video tutorials to show you how to work both cables used in the pattern using two methods. Read on!
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My Sumburgh hat design for the Shetland Wool Week Annual 2017 features lots and lots of two-stitch cables. Image © Jesse Wild.
I have a confession to make...
There are some techniques in knitting that I know are possible, but don't use often enough to remember off by heart how to do them. Sometimes those techniques are easily found on my ample knitting bookshelves, and other times I shrug and get on with the project knowing full well that there's a better way to do it, but lacking the time to hunt down the instructions. Two-stitch cable shortcuts fall into this category. I'm sure there's a tutorial out there somewhere, but I knew when we started to work on Something New to Learn About Cables, that I wanted to include a full set of instructions for the four most basic types: 1/1 LC, 1/1 RC, 1/1 LPC and 1/1 RPC.
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Rachel Coopey's Areto hat is one of the designs in Something New to Learn About Cables, and is the perfect design for newer cablers to practise their skills. Image © Jesse Wild.
Rachel Coopey's Areto hat is one of the designs in Something New to Learn About Cables, and is the perfect design for newer cablers to practise their skills. Our video will get new cablers started with crossing their stitches.
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