I’ve been having fun with my colourful yarn, and making progress with my poncho. Knitting this pattern.
However . . . I’ve had to change the choice of cable pattern due to my self-striping yarn. A bit difficult to see from the above photo, but this cable pattern had me slipping stitches in 2 consecutive rows, then cabling the slipped stitch which was effectively from 2 rows previous (since it had been slipped twice, never knitted) . . . and I didn’t like the result. It gave me sudden jumps in colour, with something 2 rows below suddenly appearing on the cable section and just looked messy.
I was determined to have a cable band down the front though, so I rifled through my books, and searched on the internet, until I found something I thought would work.
And this one does work – yay!
I’m having to thread a life-line in at the beginning of each 8 row pattern repeat sequence, because I had several accidents when I began and don’t want any more. It’s adding a nice bit of texture to the front of my knitting, and a little bit of excitement that requires concentration when I get to the centre of each row. And colours look better in real life . . . more like below.
except that the photo with flash, while it shows true colours, make stitch definition look wierd. Looks much better in real life!
Anyway . . . I’ve still got a long way to go, but I should have my first cabled project ready & finished by the time colder weather arrives!
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Love cable knitting it always looks good and it makes knitting an otherwise plain sweater etc far more interesting. Love the colorus xx
would look more effective in a plain yarn, but I had my heart set on making this my first cable project ^^
Looks so great. I’ve done cables but with just one color yarn. Don’t think I could do cables with multi colored yarn.
love your blog.
thanks for stopping by Carry ^^ I agree that cables would probably look better in plain yarn, but I’m enjoying the effect they have on stripes too.
I really like that cable pattern and it looks great with the self striping yarn. I really ought to try using lifelines – my latest project is really hard to undo without losing stitches.
this is the first project where I’ve ever used a life-line, but I had so many false starts and stitches pinging off my needle when knitting my first cables, that it’s a nice safety net to have.
That cable pattern works perfectly with your yarn!
Your Cable knitting is gorgeous. The colour changes are perfect, you did great choosing an alternate cable to fit
My goodness that looks so pretty. Good decision to change the pattern for this one.
It is going to be gorgeous!!! I love that cable.