Adding Cables to a Knitting Project // Technique Tuesday 

I’m a beginner, this channel is the best one I’ve found yet. Excellent instruction, every potential pit fall is covered. A true teacher , understanding all the common mistakes and making them avoidable. Sounds daft but I am very grateful ?

Your explanation gave me a huge lightbulb moment... thank you for explaining it so clearly.

Thank you so very much for this tutorial. I had no idea how to add a cable component to a project before watching this video. I really appreciate that you share the "why" in addition to the "how".

Awesome Roxanne! You always have just the right instruction and examples for what I want to learn next. Thank you.

You are such a great teacher! Thank you so much for all your videos!

Hugely useful, especially with your excellent use of samples and mark up -- so helpful to have both the description and visible examples that walk you through a process, a narrative of how you would use this. I always appreciate it Roxanne!

I’ve learned so much from your videos, but this one was particularly good! I was riveted!

So helpful Rox! I keep going back for refreshers in the start of a new knitting year. Wishing you continued success in 2022! Love and appreciate all your technique Tues tutorials. 🙏🏻❤️🧶🥰

Thank you for another techniques video. You are a wonderful teacher. This cable session came at an opportune time for me. I am completing my submission of Level 1 of the CYC Instructor certificate program. I planned leg warmers as a homework project with the first one in stockinette and a cable in the second. I managed it alright without adding stitches to accommodate the cable but I can see now that was just dumb luck. Your lessons are always a revelation.

I'm actually swatching for my very cable sweater!!! My math SUCKS soooo bad I'll have to watch this quite a few more times before it all makes sense. I understood that cables put in and require but I never even considered that I'd need more stitches than for the ribbing due to the cables. I didn't even think to do the ribbing along with the cable pattern. I've learned so much already!! Thank you. xoxo

Fantastic! Thank you so much, I love these detailed podcasts. I sit with notebook in hand each time.

This is SO helpful and interesting. Thank you! I adore cables and want to swap out cables in some projects in the future. I have Norah Gaughan’s excellent Cable Sourcebook with its Stocking Stitch Equivalent system but now understand that swatching (as always) is the key.

Thank you this is great. I am knitting fingerless gloves and just wanted a simple cable at the front. :)

Thank you for all you do for all use knitters, it is appreciated! Happy New Year!!!

Thank you Roxanne! That helped me see why swatches are important and how cables affect the project. Neat!

Thank you for a clear and easy to understand explanation. I have been trying to do this for some time now and I can finally finish my design. Thank you.

this is so clever, thank you!

Such a nice description of cables, thank you👍

Another great tuturial.Thanks so so much.

Great block of instructions...Thank you.

Thank you for such straightforward helpful information. Totally spot on 👌. 🐢

Very interesting technique video! Thanks for sharing!

Well, thought I'd be among the first 2 or 3 to wish you a Happy New Year, but apparently I was slow! 😆 Thanks for your wonderful, informative videos. Keep'em coming!

Just what I needed! Great video!

Happy New Year!🎉✌🏻❤️🧶

Love helpful video, thank you 🙂

WOW! Thank you, I needed this info.

Happy New Year!

thank you as always for sharing your knowledge! 🩷 i couldn’t have come across this video at a more opportune time as i’ve been wanting to knit my first ever cabled cardigan ☺️

This is great. Thank you!

Happy New Year!!

Great explanation!

Thank you so much.

Thank you for sharing😊

HI Roxanne - this is super helpful :) Can you have a video to show how you add cable knit to a plan kitted garment/square - just to see how you get started. Thank you

very helpful. thank you. m

You are a fantastic teacher and I love watching your videos . I’m working on another Aran afghan but this time want to avoid the “flare”. I was too far into my last one to make the appropriate changes . I want to avoid flaring in this one and know I need to add stitches after I do a 2 inch seed stitch border, but where ? My cable is worked on 32 stitches but where do the added stitches go to not mess up my cable pattern? What am I missing?

Would love to see you giving a tutorial how to make from beginning to end an Aran Cable Knit Dress in Large sizes , say size 16 and 18. Thank-you.

Of course I find this video AFTER I'm half way through a project I've decided to add cables to 😅 oh well, the cables seem quite stretchy so hopefully it still works out

Smart!

This is great! But I have a question: How do you calculate how much extra yarn yardage (yarnage?) you need?

While knitting a sweater, I discovered that it was too big. So, I dropped back a section of the stitches and reworked it in cables. The more stitches in the cables the more it reduced the extra fabric.

Cool

Makes sense to me, I love math. : D

Hello Roxanne, I’m having problems knitting C10B cables in chunky yarn with a tidy crossover ladder, I’ve tried reversing the purl stitch but it makes no difference. Have you a relevant tutorial please? Thank you.

Question, could I still do this individual cable math, you know, swatching the individual cables and measuring the width for my sweater that uses 4 types of cables in a symmetrical pattern? Or should I just do essentially half sweater swatches for it? I’m leaning towards the half sweater swatch because it’s so many cables and of different types. This is what I’m doing for my sweater as it would appear from left to right on the front and back: Left twist | 4 strand braid | Saxon Braid | Celtic Knot | Saxon Braid | 4 strand braid | Right twist Which means that I would be knitting it the opposite way, starting with the right twist and ending with the left twist. That’s so much cabling that I’m not sure the individual cable measurements would cut it. That doesn’t mean that I won’t do individual cable swatches, but it does mean that I would need to do more than just that. Since all the cables I’m using except the Celtic Knot have a column of 2 purl stitches on either side, I’m thinking I should first do a swatch with no added stitches between cables, measure it, see how it would fit, and then gradually add purl stitches to the swatches until I reach a good size and use that as the basis for my pattern(I’m anticipating that the no added stitches swatch will be too small). And since I’m planning on doing this sweater in the round and having the 2 twist cables on each side(1 for the front and 1 for the back) as close as possible, I would not be using a filler stitch at the edge, so I shouldn’t include that in my swatch, right, just the cables?

This is so fantastic! Thank you so much! Quick clarifying question: do you do the increases in the first row of the cables, or do you do a row in between the filler stitch and the cables? I would think it would be the former, but having not yet done cables (although they are less intimidating after watching your videos!), I'm not quite clear on the logistics of that stage. Thank you for any clarification you can offer!

Have you ever added cables to a top down sweater? I hate seaming and would love to do one. Any suggestions?

What kind of increases do you do before starting the cable pattern? And if I'm making a sweater (bottom up) with ribbing at the bottom, would I do the increases in my last row of ribbing?

I always used to knit Aran's with oiled wool,you didn't need to use a cable needle,as dropped stitches didn't unravel, but just sat there until you needed to pick them up again, I used to knit with Blarney's oiled bainin wool, which was tough on the hands, but a little water repellent, The mill has now closed, and I haven't been able to find another source of oiled wool, any ideas?

I want to sell my works ,but I am soofar.I ca knot everything .