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Special Techniąues

Making Cables With-out a Cable Needle

CrosMng ?titches with a cable needle takes ii lot of timc, cspccially when you are wnrking an tnterwoven parłem. Since rhc lit tle “cables" in thcsc patterns are gencrally workecl over only 2 or 4 srirches, with .1 lir tle practice you un work without a cable needle.

In compurison tu stocklneite stitch or evcn norma! cables, interwm en pattems tighten u lot, so you shoukl knit ihem a lirrie Id- .ser. Use ar least the largest needle $i:e indicutcd. li you have a little “play* in tire yam. tr is akt) casier to cross the stitches.

You can work rhe inrerwoven pat-tern cxpluincd in the photos on the right as perpendieubr srrips or all the way nround. Howeyer, entirc swcat-ers in the tnter\voven pattem are relatively sriff and he.ny, m> this partem is not giKsJ for all sweaters. A CłHintry*kx>k cardiyan, on the other hanj, will be especially warm. You need an cven number of stitches for this inter\voven pattem.

Left Cross Mini-cables

For mini-cablcs crossed ro rhe leń. cherek a trick you can use to make Crossing rhe stitches casier The dińi-eult stitch in the row on the right side of the work is always the second sritch of the cable, which i> the first stitch on the wrong side ot the work. So it you puri this stitch “the wrong way" in the previous row on the wrong side of the work, it will be on the needle twisted in the ncxt row on rhc right side ot the work- in other word.s. the front parł ot the sritch will be behind the needle. You can then knit the stitch “twisted." Insert the needle into rhe back part of the 'titcli and gei a normal kult stitch.

Iln the right side rows, insert the needle into the front of the second stitch, going behind the first stitch, and puli the yarn through.

3 In the wrong side rows, purl 1 stitch at both edges, and in betwocn work as follows every 2 stitches. Insert the needle into the second stitch. going in front of the first stitch, and purl it.

Iln the previous row on the wrong side, puli the loop for the purl stitch through from the top to the bonom. This puts the stitch on the needle "twisted." In the row on the right side. knit the second stitch of the cable twisted: Insert the needle from right to left, behind the first stitch into the back loop of the second stitch, and puli the yarn through.

2 Then knit the first stitch and let both stitches drop from the left needle.

4 Then purl the first stitch and let both stitches drop from the left needle.

2 Then insert the needle into the front of the first stitch, from right to left, and knit the stitch. Then allow both stitches to drop from the left needle. The twisted stitch of the previous row will now lie "correctly” undor the Crossing.

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