Stitch dictionaries are a fun way to learn new-to-you knitting stitch patterns or to take a deep dive into a particular technique. Debbie Tomkies offers 100 cable stitch designs and thoughts on how to incorporate them into projects in her … Read More ...
Stitch Easy Cables on Fingerless Gloves
Cable knitting is one of the basic skills of knitting that I think everyone should try once or twice. So many beginning knitters think that cable knitting is hard, and while it can be challenging when there are lots of … Read More ...
Enter Dad to Win a “Cable Knit” Sweater Vest
Dads in cliche are known for their terrible jokes, and their hoarding of cables and other technological bits and bobs that no one really knows the use of or if they’ll ever be needed again.
Staples is giving a few … Read More ...
Learn to Knit Cables with These Basic Patterns
Cable knitting is, to me, more of a winter project, but I don’t really know why. I guess I associate cables with big, warm sweaters covered in cable patterns (even though I’ve never knit one of those) so they feel … Read More ...
Sunny Headband Knitting Pattern
There’s something about fall that gets me thinking about knitting cables. I have no idea why the two are connected in my mind. Maybe I’m thinking about cable knit sweaters, which are so cozy in the fall and winter months. … Read More ...
A Simple Lace and Cable Stitch Pattern
My love for learning new stitch patterns is well documented (I even just recently wrote a book review about a fun new book full of knitting stitch patterns, The New Knitting Stitch Dictionary).
Lilia Craft Party likes learning about, … Read More ...
Orchid Socks Bring More Fun with Cables and Lace
Just the other day I was talking about combining cables and lace to make a fun knitting pattern that uses lots of skills and brings different textures to the party, with the example of a cable and lace shawl. … Read More ...
Play with Cables and Lace in this Wrap Knitting Pattern
You already know I have cables on the brain from my post the other day about making cables without a cable needle. It’s funny that when you start thinking about a particular genre of knitting you start to see … Read More ...
How to Cable without a Cable Needle
I’ve been working on a lot of cable knitting projects lately, which is not something I normally do. I don’t know why, but I don’t typically use a lot of cables in my designs or choose to knit things that … Read More ...
Cabled Halloween Fall Pumpkin Knitting Pattern
Looking for a last-minute pumpkin pattern to round our your fall decor?
This cabled pumpkin is worked in bulky yarn so it will take just about no time at all to knit. If you’ve never worked cables before, these are … Read More ...
Knit a Mister Rogers Sweater
With the 50th anniversary of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and a new movie about his life coming out this year, interest in the sweater-wearing TV star has never been higher.
If you’d like to knit a Mister Rogers-style sweater for … Read More ...
How to Count Rows When Knitting Cables
Probably the hardest thing about knitting cables isn’t the knitting itself, it’s remembering which row you need to work your cable on. I’m not the kind of knitter who keeps a row counter handy, and I don’t always remember which … Read More ...
Try a Celtic Cable for St. Patrick’s Day
There are all sorts of fun Aran cables and Irish-inspired designs that are fun to knit and incorporate into projects at this time of year.
Studio Knit has a great tutorial for an Irish Saxon Braid pattern, which is … Read More ...
Cable Knitting Made Easy with These Simple Techniques
Cable knitting is really fun because, like a lot of techniques in knitting, just a couple of simple skills can take you from basic to amazingly intricate designs.
Cable knitting is just a process of working stitches in an order … Read More ...
Review: Norah Gaughan’s Knitted Cable Sourcebook
Norah Gaughan is well known in the knitting world for her geometric feats of knitting. Her projects tend to turn knitting on its head in lots of different ways, so its no surprise that one of her particular obsessions when … Read More ...