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Hold these stitches at the front of the fabric. Knit the next two stitches from the left-hand needle, then slide the two stitches on the cable needle up to the end of the needle and knit them so that they are now both on the right-hand needle. Bring the yarn to the front of your knitting, and pull the yarn tight to avoid ladders along the side of the cable stitches.

Purl the next stitch and continue as instructed in your knitting pattern. Twisting your cables in the other direction is just as simple. Working the cable over six stitches instead of four will also give your cable a chunkier look. Cast on 22 stitches, and on the first row purl 8 stitches, knit 6 stitches, purl 8 stitches.

Work the second row: K8, P6, K8. Work the row as follows: P8, C6B, P8. To help keep track of the central column of six stitches so you always knit the cable in the right place on the row, place stitch markers on both sides of it. Keep going until you feel confident with the technique. To work the C6B cabling technique, work the stitches of the background in reverse stocking stitch, up to where the cable pattern is going to begin.

You could mark this with stitch markers. Next, work the cable pattern on the central column of six stitches. To do this, slip the next three stitches on to a cable needle. Take the cable needle with the three stitches to the back of the fabric here, the cable needle is at the back of the knitting. Knit the next three stitches, pulling the first stitch tight to avoid ladders in the cable. To complete the cable, bring the cable needle to the front of the fabric and knit the three stitches from the cable needle.

The simplest cable needle is short and straight with points at both ends. Slide the stitches onto the shorter end and knit off the longer end. Cables are best worked in 4ply, DK, aran or chunky yarn. Cable needles usually come in pairs, one thin and one slightly thicker. Use the thin one for 4ply and DK yarns, and the thicker one for aran and chunky.

Crossing stitches over each other may cause them to stretch. Some knitters find they prefer cabling this way, while others stick to using a cable needle. These classic straight cable needles from KnitPro are made in their gorgeous Symfonie wood. The tapered tips make it easy to pick stitches up, while grooves on the needles help to keep them in place. This three-pack includes sizes 3. The pack includes two needles, one 2.

Buy Pony Cable Needle. This U-shaped cable stitch holder from Clover is designed to help prevent dropped stitches, making it a great choice for beginners. It comes in a set of three, sized small, medium and large, to suit a range of different yarn weights. The Prym Yoga is a multi-functional cable needle, so as well as being great for cabling it also has a variety of other uses.

Buy Prym Yoga cable needle. Everyone needs a snuggly hat for winter, so make your first cable project this cosy head-warmer. Our unisex design is quick to knit, so grab a ball of your favourite DK yarn and cast on today! Knit our free unisex cable hat pattern. Cast on the owl fingerless gloves knitting pattern. Keep your drink cool and your hands warm with our beer bottle cosy pattern.

You can either knit it using a mixture of cables and intarsia colourwork, or make it in one shade for an easier knit. Get the free beer cosy knitting pattern. Sometimes cables can be called twists, so you might see T4F rather than C4F, but they often mean the same thing.

This row sets the patt, cont to work the side panels in rev st st and the centre panel from the Chart for cable panel A until Back meas 41 []cm 16[ Next row RS - dec : K2, sl2 sts onto cn at back of work, knit together the 1st stitch from the LH needle with the 1st stitch on the cn, then purl together the last st on the cn with the next st on the LH needle, patt to last 6 sts, sl2 sts onto cn at front of work, purl together the 1st stitch on the LH needle with the 1st stitch on the cn, take yarn to back of work, slip the last st from the cn onto the RH needle, knit the next st from LH needle and pass over the slipped st, k2.

Rep the dec row on every foil 4th row 10[] more times. After the final dec work 3 more rows on the rem sts then cast off all sts for neck. Work as for Back until Front meas 41 []cm 16[ Rep the dec row on every foil 4th row 9[] more times.

At the same time when work measures 59[]cm Each side of neck will now be worked separately. Patt to neck edge and place rem sts on a st holder. Keeping raglan shaping correct cast off at the neck edge on every RS row: 3 sts twice, 2 sts once and the rem 4 sts.