Are you afraid to cable? Do you dream of all of those luscious cabled patterns but are intimidated by their seeming complexity?
Wow! I just put that whole sentence together all by myself.
Relax! Cables are E.A.S.Y!! Really, they are, and this book will show you how. You’ll wonder why you didn’t try them before.
Or, maybe you’re a closet cable connoisseur! This book will gently ease you out of that closet, and soon you’ll be showing off your cables with such confidence.
This book will be given away next Friday, September 10, 2010. (I almost typed August, not sure where August went. Note to self… look into this).
All you have to do to win this book is leave me a comment telling me all about your cable experiences! I love all of your funny stories, so make me laugh!
Well, not really haha funny, but my latest blog post is about the problems I’m having with the sweater I’m making now. Since I designed it to be uncomplicated, why am I messing up so much?
BTW, who won Northern Knits?
The only cabling I’ve done is on a scarf – and I really was surprised at how much easier it was than I anticipated. I’d love to win this book and try some more!
I’m just learing to knit, but I love the way that cables look and think that the process of creating them is fascinating!
I have to admit that I am scared of cables.
Everytime i start to try cables, i am so overwhelmed. I just dont know where to start.
The yarn ends up getting pulled and finally ends up becoming a mess.
I took a class at my LYS and made a cable headband, but not I’m afraid to start another cable project. This book might help my confidence!
My only cabling experience comes from avoiding any and all patterns that feature it.
My teenagers say I “fail”.
Teenagers.
I love cables. I was just working on a really fancy sweater, though, and somehow didn’t notice I’d twisted one backwards until I was oh, maybe ten or twelve rows above. I couldn’t face ripping all the way back and I couldn’t stand leaving it, so I attempted to rip back just that column.
I know it’s possible, and I’ve done it before over just a couple rows, but let’s just say that I wound up ripping the whole thing back anyway with a profound lack of grace.
My first cable was a simple but beautiful sweater for my husband. All was fine. The second effort was a much more complicated pattern with lots of different cables … knitting was okay but the sweater was big enough to fit two or three men … so after setting it aside for a year I got brave and set about making it fit. I measured and carefully counted stitches and determined where I could seam and cut and so I did … and it was a fine sweater for many years … just one cable ended up a little wavy … from cutting and seaming
I was intimidated by cables. But shortly after my sister’s one year anniversary of a bone marrow transplant she saw a pattern that carried her name. I told her that I would make the sweater for her. (Mind you I had only been knitting about 9-10 months at this time– this was about 6 yrs ago). So she picked out the color and the required yarn. She had to wait a bit for it because it took me some time but I did finish it and it looks pretty good if I must say so. I had to rip it out a few times before it finally clicked but it was a learning curve too.
Well, you may remember my story of cable failure, but since using the CD, I’ve completed two relatively simple cabled items – a scarf and a sweater. I’m ready for new challenges and I’d love to win the book.
Well there was an intricate cabled design I wanted to knit (although I swear I followed the instructions carefully) and in the end it turned out as something the great Picasso would have painted!
I would love to win this! It would be a true revelation!
I don’t have any funny stories about cables. Most of my experiences have either been highly successful. Or ended up with broken cable needles and tight stitches. Nothing funny about it at all….. ;-/
I always loved the look of cables. But I always thought when making something with cables for me I would actually look like an advertising pillar.
Finalle, I felt in love with a coat and I made it and I love it!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3380/3476477331_56dab3c594.jpg
Right now I am making a cardigan with cables for me….
I like making scarfs with “double-sided”cables, here is one of my designs:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2131/2188328109_89992cd7f2.jpg
It is really much easier to knit than you might think – just give it a try!
Picture the sweater on the cover of the Rowan pattern book. I think I can, I think I can. One stitch at a time, one row at a time. Then the kids got off school for the summer and I put it all away. Now, after they returned to school, I am at it again. It is a band of cables. Slowly slowly, it is starting to make sense and I can see the pattern. This is my first effort obviously and I love what it looks like, I just have to keep going, and maybe finish before next June.
I love to watch cables unfolding as I knit. I don’t usually do them, though, just because they’re a little time consuming.
I am one of those who doesn’t have any experiences yet BUT if I win I will!
When I first tried a cable I was very young. My father had taught me to knit, as my mother’s european style was too complicated for me to grasp. With all the confidence I could muster I attempted & failed! After growing up & more experience under my belt, I tried again & was triumphant & very pleased with myself!
My first cable project ended up being called the endless cable. I couldn’t seem to figure out how to stop no matter how many times I read the pattern. Since it was an afghan, I just adjusted it to make it with a cable edging and it turned out great!
I like cables, and have tried to learn to cable without a cable needle, but I often cross the cables the wrong way when I do that. I really would like to knit a cabled sweater for this winter.
My first cable project – a simple cabled tote bag looks OK 🙂 I have attempted to start many times a several different cables scarf and put it away for now. I am hoping to try a more complicated cardigan pattern for myself!
I love cables – my problem is that I’m just OCD enough to always think things need to be symmetrical. My cables must face opposite directions on sweaters and even socks… so I spend lots of time ripping back cables to change their direction because I invariably knit them wrong. Funny or sad – your call!
I’ve always liked the how cables make a knit fabric look interesting, but can’t seem to make it look quite right when I work on them.
I’ve never tried to cable, but would love to expand my abilities!
I’m hooked on cables. I love making scarves with them. I’m hunting down new patterns so that I can give them away to charities when I finish them. I also make scarves and have them on hand to give as gifts. I would love to add this book to my collection so that I can bless others with my talent of knitting and Lily’s talent as a designer. Thanks for having the craft gossip blog. I use a lot of the ideas that you post for church crafting Super Saturdays.
i have played with simple cables and love them! I am still trying to get to where i can see ahead of the knitting which way the cable will twist by doing what you do…. it would be fun to make up some cable designs but you need this insight first! Have a sweater kit i ordered from ireland to knit for hubby with his family cable design. Have not yet started it…maybe this book would give me the boot in the bottom!
i really havent tried that many cables yet, but i really want to learn them. they look awesome. i did try a small cable stitch design on a coffee cozy i made my bf, and it came out really cool. im sure this book would give me inspiration to cable everything. I just want to say good luck to everyone and ty for such a great giveaway.
I have a daughter with Down Syndrome, she is eleven years old. Whenever I try to knit cables she hates it. I knit all the time but when I try to do cables she comes over and attacks my knitting!!!! I think she picks up on the tension in me when I concentrate so hard and wants to save me from myself!! I think with the help of Lily Chin I could figure out how to overcome this issue.
Zero experience with cables, but I will get some if I win the book!
Currently working on a cable pullover for my 4 year old grandson. The pattern is so complicated that I have turned the back into the front and will be doing a seed stitch pattern for the back. His 4th birthday is today, Sept. 4, and I would love to give it to him before he is five! I am attending a Lily Chin knitting seminar on Sept. 10th and 11th. It would be wonderful to win her book on the same weekend!
My first knitting project was a cabled cardigan. Talk about overambitious! Ok, so it wasn’t the first thing I’d ever knitted, but the first thing in over 15 years, since school.
I basically woke up one day last winter and decided I wanted to knit a cardigan. Walked into a yarn store I passed by accident two days later and bought a knitting magazine, wool and needles.
Took me a while to even figure out what the instructions were supposed to mean – I new the knit and the purl stitch, and I wasn’t aware there was more than one type of decrease or increase, but that cable chart (a very simple one, too, and just one cable on each side of the cardigan) was just about the most confusing thing I’d ever seen. And the cables were mirrored, of course, so I had to focus on doing two different things on every row that required cable action.
It took me about two months, but I managed in the end and it’s a pretty cozy cardigan, though quite huge. Yeah, I learned about the importance of washing your swatch during that project as well. For some reason I wasn’t fed up with knitting after I finished and I’ve since become addicted to lace knitting… now that winter’s coming I’d like to do a few cabled things though, so this book would come in real handy.
WHEN I DO CABLING I ALWAYS TUCK MY CABLE NEEDLE IN MY CLEAVAGE AS I AM A RATHER LARGE LADY SO I KNOW WHERE IT IS. THIS WAS OK UNTIL ONE DAY I FORGOT THE NEEDLE AND IN A SHOP I BENT DOWN AND THE NEEDLE FELL OUT OF THE FRONT OF MY DRESS. THEY GAVE ME SOME FUNNY LOOKS IN THE SHOP I CAN TELL YOU!
I love the way cable look and though I know how, it’s still the one thing in knitting I rip out more than anything else. Maybe an “easy” look at cables will help me get over the frustration factor.
Thanks for offering up such a nice giveaway!
I enjoy cabling, and really want to design a cable sweater. The first time I tried cabling, I was a little scared, but quickly realized it wasn’t that difficult. My first sweater was Rogue, with cables on the sides, sleeves and hood.
I find cables to be the ultimate confidence boost. so far, I can only do a basic cable, but my ego longs for the ability to do something like the cover of this book. plus, I love lily chin more than the sun!
I love cables. I have made quite a few cable projects. A pullover for my husband (http://www.ravelry.com/projects/BloreKnitter/mens-cabled-crewneck), Quinn bag (http://www.ravelry.com/projects/BloreKnitter/quinn-cabled-bag). I also designed a baby blanket with cables in it. (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/as-sweet-as-honey-baby-blanket)
I also keep typing August. I can’t believe that summer’s over already! (Not that I’m not glad. Now it’s knitting season!)
I love cables! As soon as I realized that all you had to do was knit the stitches out of order, I was off and away. Okay, maybe not *as soon as*–there was an awkward period of several days as I tried to knit things out of order without removing them from the needle. You know–skip two stitches, then somehow knit the next two, then go back and knit the first two, and then slide the whole mess onto the right needle. Weird how that didn’t work! I’m still not sure what I was thinking.
I can honestly say that I have done some cabling and found it to be fun but that was quite awhile ago… Would love to win this book it looks awesome and with winter around the corner, it would great to get me into the knitting mood again!
Being a new knitter I have never tried cabling before and I think that it looks complicated. I would really like to win this book and possibly learn a new technique. Thanks for the chance to win an awesome book!
I don’t have any really funny experiences with cables, but the funny thing about cables for me is that I find them easy without a cable needle and can’t seem to use a cable needle at all without dropping stitches.
My daughter had gastric bypass surgery in December 2009, and has been steadily losing weight and doing quite well. To encourage her, I promised to make her a cabled pullover sweater when she reached her goal weight. She is now within 10 pounds of that goal, and I haven’t even picked out a pattern, yet! I need to win this book so I can get a belated start and keep my word.
The only cables I’ve managed are a couple stitches wide at a most where I can cable without a needle (Koolhaas Hat, Nalu Mitts). Anything wider ends up in the frog pond because I bunch the cables up too tight or so loose that there’s a gaping hole. I don’t know why I’m so completely discouraged, there are many other techniques I’ve jumped into, watching YouTube videos repeatedly…I want so badly to master cables — my grandmother was so good at them but alas, I didn’t get further than basic knit and purl until after she passed.
I have never done cables, but I do have cable envy of those who have done them!
The book looks fantastic – thanks for the chance to win.
Cables! I loooooooove cables – espescially when they’re intertwined with lace!
I’ve only ever done very simple cables and a Koolhaas hat. I’d love to try some more.
Well, the scarf I am knitting for my daughter has about a jillion cables, but she doesn’t think it’s very funny that I’ve been working on it for over a year.
I’ve never made cables, but I’m anxious to try them.
I just love knitting cables. I add them all the time to projects I knit.
I taught myself to knit; my first cable came out pretty good! Been hooked ever since. I just found this site on Knitting Paradise. Looks like I’ll be adding this one to my repretoire.
I recently taught my 13-year-old to do her first cable scarf. She was very proud of herself, and won a blue ribbon at the Fair. Cable-iscious!