Video Knitting Course: Charts Demystified
Charts are full of symbols that can be confusing and hard to remember. But they also allow you to knit complex patterns easily. With over 7 hours of video, our Charts Demystified video class teaches you everything you need to know about knitting from knit-and-purl, lace, cable, Fair-Isle, Intarsia, double-knitting, duplicate stitch, and Mosaic charts so that you can approach any charted pattern with confidence.
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Video Knitting Course: Mastering Cables
Using a cable needle to create cables the traditional way can be painstaking. Learn to knit intricate cables with or without a cable needle so you can knit any cabled project FAST.
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How to Read a Cable Chart
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Guest Blog Post: Workshop With Cookie A: Stitch Patterns
Sock designer Cookie A.’s tips for modifying stitch patterns for your own designs. Especially helpful when adding a cable design to a sock or anything with ribbing. I can’t wait to try this tip on my next cable-design pattern!
Read Post »Blog Post: How To Knit Reversible Cables
Reversible cables are made with ribbing so that there is no “wrong side” to the project. This means a reversible-cabled scarf will look fabulous on both sides. Combine your ribbing skills with cabling to knit projects like this Palindrome scarf.
Read Post »Guest Blog Post: Workshop With Cookie A: Adding Stitch-Patterns to Socks
Three professional tips for adding cables, lace, or other stitch-patterns to your socks, including combining multiple stitch patterns, checking to see if the socks will come out too big or too small, and heel-flap design tips.
Read Post »Blog Post: How To Knit Mock Cables
Mock cables are similar to real cables in that the stitches twist around each other. However, with mock cables you just knit into the second or third stitch on the needle, then the second or first, and so on. It’s a “cheat” cable with an interesting look all its own.
Read Post »Free Pattern: Bulky Cabled Legwarmers with Buttons – Super-Bulky Weight
When I wore these bulky cabled legwarmers in New York City, they were turning heads left and right. You don’t need UGGs to be cool. Just knit these fabulous, cabled, knee-high knitted boot covers. Finish off with oversize buttons and a twisted-cord tie. Pattern includes cable chart.
Cable Chart Symbols
See full list of cable symbols on CraftYarnCouncil.com
"cn" = "cable needle"
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Cabled Legwarmers – Pattern Walkthrough
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How to Read a Cable Chart
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Keep Track of Where You Are on a Cable Chart
Premium VideoCabled Legwarmers – Rows 1-4 (Stockinette Stitch)
Premium VideoCabled Legwarmers – Rows 5-6 (Cable Set-Up)
Premium VideoUnderstanding Cable Abbreviations
Premium VideoT3L and T3R With a Cable Needle
Premium VideoT3L and T3R Without A Cable Needle
Premium VideoHow to Work Even on a Cable Chart
Premium VideoEasy 2-Row Buttonhole
Premium VideoC4R With A Cable Needle
Premium VideoC4R Without a Cable Needle
Premium VideoCabled Legwarmers – Rows 13-24 (Continue Pattern)
Premium VideoWhen You Forget to Cable
Premium VideoMistakes When Cabling Without a Cable Needle
Premium VideoCorrecting A Stitch That Looks Out of Place
Premium VideoWhen You Forget to Do Buttonhole
Premium VideoWhen You Forget What Row You’re On
Premium VideoC4L With A Cable Needle
Premium VideoC4L Without A Cable Needle
Premium VideoHow to Bind Off in Pattern
Premium VideoHow to Sew on Buttons and Weave in Ends
Premium VideoHow to Make a Twisted-Cord Tie
Premium VideoRecommended Notion: Cable Needles by Brittany Needles
Cable needles help hold stitches to the front or back of your work while cabling. While you can knit cables without them, and I prefer to, using cable needles when you are just learning to cable makes everything easier.
Testimonial: Really Easy to Understand
In regards to: Cabled LegwarmersI am very glad I got this Cable Knitting e-book. Reading patterns is hard for me but Liat goes step by step and makes it really easy to understand. Anyone that wants to learn cabling this is the e-book to get and the price is great. thank you Liat
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