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Learn to Cable With Confidence
Getting cables right takes confidence.
- You may doubt that you could fix a cabling mistake
- Tons of strange new abbreviations to learn and memorize
- It can be hard to remember which stitches go where!
The Bulky Cabled Legwarmers pattern was perfect, and the promise of videos to help me through my first knit cables was important. AS IT TURNED OUT... I really needed the troubleshooting videos.
After four or five tries, I fixed a missing buttonhole and 10 more rows of knitting.
WOW! Thanks so much for this. I would never have had the courage to attempt to fix this problem without ripping out all 11 rows without your videos.
Anyone that wants to learn cabling this is the e-book to get and the price is great. Thank you Liat.
I am downright proud of what I accomplished. I found that using lace knitting needles and using wool yarn at your suggestion proved to be the turning point in my attempts; that old adage….having the right tools and materials makes all the difference……was never more “spot on.”
With a little more practice with reversible cables, I’ll be ready to take on the Palindrone Scarf. Again, thanks for your help.
Lacking the Confidence to Attempt Cabled Projects?
- We teach you step-by-step with high-quality videos
- Learn to cable with and without a cable needle
- Knit a fabulous pair of bulky cabled legwarmers
- NEW bonus videos on reversible cables + more!
I Had a Hard Time Remembering How to Do Cables
When I first attempted a cable pattern, I had to follow the directions very painstakingly as I could not remember which stitches went which way for each type of cable.
I’m Liat Gat, founder and video instructor at KnitFreedom. Once I taught myself how to do cables without a cable needle, I figured out the secret to remembering what goes where.
I created a super-popular bulky cabled legwarmers pattern and this 23-video tutorial series to help bring this technique within the reach of more knitters everywhere.
Now I’ve updated the course with even more high-quality bonus content so you can work reversible cables like a pro, as well.The Cable-With-Confidence Plan
1. Learn to Read a Cable Chart
Understand what each symbol means and why it looks the way it does.
2. Learn to Cable With and Without a Cable Needle
Our videos teach you up-close not only the HOW of each technique, but also the WHY.
3. Practice on a Beautiful Project You'll Be Proud Of
Knit along with step-by-step videos to create a fabulous pair of bulky legwarmers with buttons.
The Cable-With-Confidence Plan
1. Click "Yes, I Want to Learn Brioche!"
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2. Use Scrap Yarn to Create Four Swatches
Follow our videos to learn the four steps of Brioche inside and out
3. Cast On For Your Brioche Hat or Scarf
Continue practicing with super-simple projects like our two-color brioche hat and scarf
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We're here to help if you have questions
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Email [email protected] and we'll walk you through anything you need to know.
You'll never be stuck
If there's anything in the class you're confused on, we'll make an extra video to help get you clear and confident.
Money-back guarantee
If after watching our videos, you're not confidently knitting all types of cables, we'll give you your money back.
Projects You Will Learn to Knit in This Course
STEP-BY-STEP: Bulky Cabled Legwarmers with Buttons
From reading a cable chart to learning four different types of cables with and without a cable needle, you’ll become a cable pro in no time with this quick project.
BONUS VIDEOS! Palindrome Reversible Cable Scarf
The Palindrome Reversible Cable Scarf has been a knitters’ favorite for years due to its cushy, ribbed structure and completely reversible motif.
Projects You Will Learn to Knit in This Course
STEP-BY-STEP: Bulky Cabled Legwarmers with Buttons
From reading a cable chart to learning four different types of cables with and without a cable needle, you’ll become a cable pro in no time with this great project.
BONUS VIDEOS! Palindrome Reversible Cable Scarf
The Palindrome Reversible Cable Scarf has been a knitters’ favorite for years due to its cushy, ribbed structure and completely reversible motif. Great for guys.
BONUS VIDEO! Serpensortia Advanced Cabled Hat
Created to work with SIX different weights of yarn, this advanced hat is a cabler’s dream. Our video shows you how to do every special stitch and abbreviation.
Grow Your Skills With 27 In-Depth Cable Videos
Work along with our Bulky Cabled Legwarmers pattern and 23 step-by-step videos to create a fabulous pair of cabled legwarmers while learning every aspect of cables with and without a cable needle. Plus 4 new BONUS videos take your cabling to the next level.
Pattern Overview
How to Read a Cable Chart
How to Keep Track of Where You Are
First Plain Rows
First Pattern Rows
Understanding Cable Abbreviations
T3L and T3R With a Cable Needle
T3L and T3R Without a Cable Needle
Work In Pattern
2-Stitch Buttonhole
C4R With a Cable Needle
C4R Without a Cable Needle
Practice and Review
Messed Up a Few Rows Down
Common No-Cable-Needle Mistakes
A Stitch That Looks Out Of Place
Forgot To Do Buttonhole
Forgot What Row You’re On
C4L With a Cable Needle
C4L Without a Cable Needle
Bind Off In Pattern
Sewing Buttons and Weaving in Ends
Twisted-Cord Tie
Simple Cable Charts
Complex Cable Charts
Reversible Cables Without a Cable Needle
Advanced Cable Tips and Tricks
Pattern Overview
How to Read a Cable Chart
How to Keep Track of Where You Are
First Plain Rows
First Pattern Rows
Understanding Cable Abbreviations
T3L and T3R With a Cable Needle
T3L and T3R Without a Cable Needle
Work In Pattern
2-Stitch Buttonhole
C4R With a Cable Needle
C4R Without a Cable Needle
Practice and Review
Messed Up a Few Rows Down
Common No-Cable-Needle Mistakes
A Stitch That Looks Out Of Place
Forgot To Do Buttonhole
Forgot What Row You’re On
C4L With a Cable Needle
C4L Without a Cable Needle
Bind Off In Pattern
Sewing Buttons and Weaving in Ends
Twisted-Cord Tie
Simple Cable Charts
Complex Cable Charts
Reversible Cables Without a Cable Needle
Advanced Cable Tips and Tricks
How You'll Master the Art of Cable Knitting
This class gets you:
- 27 Premium Step-by-Step Knitting Videos
- Downloadable Videos and Class PDF for Offline Learning
- Charted Pattern for Bulky Cabled Legwarmers with Buttons
- Charted Patterns for Simple and Complex Cable Swatches
- Personal Answers to Your Knitting Questions
- 60-Day 100% Money-Back Guarantee
What Is Cable Knitting?
In knitting, cables are three-dimensional designs you add to your knitted piece. They add texture and interest and can make a piece more unique. Cables are columns of stitches that travel left and right across the knitted background, wrapping around each other like snakes and making curves, diagonals, and even circles.To create cables, you can follow a pattern or your own imagination. To make the columns of stitches travel, you switch the order of the stitches on your needle, usually crossing knit stitches in front of purl stitches or other knit stitches. Stitches can cross to the left or to the right, or even both at the same time
Why Learn to Cable Knit?
Once you can knit cables, you can add interest to any knitted piece you are intending to make. Add texture and character to hats, sweaters, socks, mittens; make reversible garments like scarves and blankets; you can even combine cables with other knitting techniques like Fair-Isle knitting and Brioche knitting to create eye-popping colorful cables.Adding cables to your projects is a way to increase the interest and challenge in any knitted piece without venturing too far outside your comfort zone. It’s a way to increase your breath of projects in the intermediate and advanced knitting realms.
What Are Some of the Challenges Involved in Learning Cables?
Cabling involves learning and understanding new abbreviations. It can be hard to remember and understand what all the different cable abbreviations mean and why.Cabling also involves getting used to manipulating stitches and needles in new ways. It can be physically challenging to move the stitches around and get them to go where you want them to go (until you learn the best ways to do so, of course).
Lastly, most cable patterns are written using charts, so if you haven’t yet gotten comfortable reading charts, this presents an extra hurdle as you try to learn cables and charts at the same time. Fortunately, charts are designed to make reading knitting patterns easier, not harder and, once you know to read them, you’ll be able to knit many more interesting patterns that you might have avoided before.
What is a Cable Needle? Do I Need One to Knit Cables?
A cable needle is a very short knitting needle with points at both ends. To cable using a cable needle, you slip a certain number of stitches onto a cable needle and hold them to the front or the back of your work while knitting the stitches on your main needles. You then slip the reserved stitches back onto your main needles or knit them right off the cable needle.If you do not have a cable needle, you can use a regular double-pointed needle to create cables. Use one the same size as or any size smaller than the needles you are using for your project.
However, you do not need a cable needle to create most cables. Using sharply-tapered or lace needles and the right know-how, you can safely remove and rearrange stitches to create cables using just the two knitting needles you are working with. This makes it easier to cable on-the-go as you do not need to make sure you have any special equipment with you to do your cables.
Our course teaches you to cable confidently with and without a cable needle so you can choose the method that works for you. My preference is to cable without a cable needle because I think it is faster, easier, and more fun.
What Are Some of Common Cable Abbreviations?
Here are the principle cable abbreviations you will want to start by learning:Cable Chart Symbols
How Will I Learn to Knit Cables in This Course?
We’ll learn to knit cables on a real cabled project: a pair of bulky cabled legwarmers with buttons. The project goes fast and the bulky yarn helps you easily see what you’re doing.We’ll work row-by-row through a 45-row cabled legwarmer chart, learning to read your work, recognize knits and purls, and adding in 3-and-4-stitch left and right twists (a kind of cable) and cables throughout.
You many want to start by learning each kind of cable using a cable needle on the first legwarmer and then doing the cables on the second legwarmer without a cable needle.
What Materials Will I Need to Follow Along With This Course?
To create the Bulky Cabled Legwarmers with Buttons that is this course’s main project, you’ll need:- Yarn: 260 yds (240 m) super-bulky yarn. Shown: 2 skeins Brown Sheep Burly Spun
- Needles: 1 pair straight needles, US size 15 (10.0 mm) or size required to get gauge (2.5 sts/in); Optional: 1 US size 15 cable needle
- Notions: 8 1-inch buttons, stitch markers, scissors, tapestry needle
The Palindrome Reversible Cable Scarf can be worked in any weight of yarn and corresponding needle size. We recommend wool yarn (washable or otherwise) and sharp needles like Signature Needle Arts stiletto tip single points to create the reversible cables without a cable needle as shown in the first bonus video. Wool yarn is bouncier and stretchier than acrylic or cotton and it will make it easier and more fun to make this large (8-stitch) cable.
What Techniques Will I Learn in This Course?
On our main Cabled Legwarmers project, you’ll learn how to:- Read a cable chart instead of a written pattern
- Think about and understand the many different cable abbreviations
- Keep track of your pattern progress without counting rows
- Perform a Twist 3 Left, Twist 3 Right, Cable 4 Left, and Cable 4 Right
- Cable with and without a cable needle
- Create a two-row buttonhole
- Avoid, undo, and fix beginner-to-advanced cabling mistakes
- Read your work and recognize your stitches so you don’t get confused, and
- Securely attach buttons and make a twisted-cord tie
- Work large (8-stitch) reversible cables without a cable needle
- Remove rows of knitting and get them back on your needle
- Find out which row you’re on by looking at your knitting
- And more!
In these two bonus cable chart videos, you’ll learn:
- C4R without a cable needle
- C4L without a cable needle
- T4R without a cable needle
- T4L without a cable needle
- T3R without a cable needle
- T3L without a cable needle
- Chart symbols and how to make sense of them
- Tips for tension, keeping your place, and figuring out where you are
All Techniques Demonstrated American (English) and Continental Style
If you’re the kind of knitter that needs to see exactly what stitches and techniques are supposed to look like, you’re in luck. We demonstrate every move with the yarn held in both the left and right hands so that no matter which way you knit, you’ll see clearly what you want to see.60-Day 100% Money-Back Guarantee
You are protected by our 60-day no-questions-asked 100% money-back satisfaction guarantee. Try any of our courses out for 60 days. If you don’t love everything you learn and tell all your friends, we’ll give you your money back.While we money-back guarantee your satisfaction with KnitFreedom, downloading videos acknowledges that you are happy with the product and are no longer eligible to receive a refund. Please review the videos in your online class first if you think you might need a refund.
We have stood behind this guarantee since we started KnitFreedom more than 10 years ago, and we receive almost no refund requests. Our students love learning with KnitFreedom, and we invite you to try it too, 100% risk-free.
Personal Answers to Your Knitting Questions
We know self-taught knitters have questions, and we never want you to feel alone. As a KnitFreedom student you have access to personal knitting coaching via email at any time. Just email [email protected] Knitting expert and video teacher Liat Gat will answer your questions about cable knitting. You can even send in a photo of your knitting if you aren’t sure how to explain what’s happened.Downloadable Videos for Offline Viewing
If you go on vacation and want to take your knitting videos with you, or you live in an area with unreliable/slow Internet, you can download all our class videos to your computer at any time, and transfer them to your mobile devices as well.Ready For Your Knitting Transformation?
- Feeling confused and overwhelmed by charted or written cable patterns
- Avoiding cable patterns for fear of making mistakes
- Trouble understanding and remembering how to do cable abbreviations
- Choosing the wrong materials for your cable projects
- Struggling with your yarn and stitches when cabling
- Knowing how to create many types of cables with confidence
- Understanding how to read a cable chart
- Cabling easily with and without a cable needle
- Feeling confident choosing and understanding cable patterns
- Feeling confident recognizing and fixing cable mistakes anywhere in your knitting.
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