love how you explain the chart. ive been trying to teach myself to knit - but never learned how to read instructions or charts. i dont usually watch a tutorial videos with too much explaining. yours is precise and just the right words I want to hear. your explanations are easy to follow. im a simple minded person but i want to learn cable knit for so many times. it gets so frustrating bcause i ended up with a messy knit. so i go back to the one row repeat pattern - so afraid to do socks and other stuff. i will try to make cable stitch again with your tutorial. i really appreciate it. thank you so much Roxanne.
Exactly what I needed at the moment ,deciding on how to make my project more interesting without too much of an added volume ! Thank you for your clear explanation, a joy .
Hi!! I've looked EVERYWHERE for a tutorial on how to mirror a knitted cable, but i didn't find nothing enough useful. Now, for a pure casuality, i've found your video, et voilà, the mirrored knitting cable!!! Sometime, when you look for something you didn't find it, and when you're looking for something else you finally find exactly the thing you were looking before! Thank you very much for this video!!! Do you think you can delve deeper into the topic of mirrored cables (possibly with different types of cables, from the most common and easy to the most complex, with particular attention to the large ones, which are usually positioned in the front of the sweater)? I would be really grateful, I've just started designing my own patterns, for the very first time in my entire life, after a pair of years spent knitting patterns purchased online, designed by others, and in this moment of my life a series of videos on how to mirror cables (and maybe also on how to split cables in 2 parts along the neckline, and maybe also on how to mirror lace patterns... i know, i know, i'm askin' too much! Sorry, very sorry, i'm a diehard enthusiastic knitter, i cannot change my nature!) would be INCREDIBLY USEFUL!!! Anyway, thank you very much for all your so useful lessons, i've already subscribed to your channel, and i will always look forward for new lessons on your channel (you're a very good teacher, and i really LOVE your channel, even if there are some important topics that you haven't covered yet, i hope you will do in the future). Thanks again for your videos, Lisa (from Rome, Italy) ⚘ P.S. sorry if my English is not perfect, i did my best.. see you soon 🤗
While this video isn't really about mirroring cables, it does explain how to read cable charts, which might help you better understand how cables work, and therefore, how to mirror them. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-quKFPY74WcU.html
@@RoxanneRichardson yes, thank you very much for the answer but I already know how to read a cable chart, the problem is that I've bought more than 300€ of knitting patterns book, and in all these books (included the japanese books, that seems to be the best, between the ones I've bought) I only find 1) always the same 3 kind of very simple (and already seen, over and over) mirrored cables, that anyway I've already used in 2 or 3 sweaters; or 2) extremely complex cable, aran and lace patterns, that I like, but that I can use only on scarves, and wraps, 'cause I really don't like sweaters with too many patterns/cables/holes (I find it stupid, I like simple and elegant models). In this moment I'm looking for VERY LARGE cables, and for instructions on how to mirror them, 'cause I want to design some fitted sweaters with only 1 or 2 big cables on the front (not one million complex aran or Celtic cables, it's not my style!), and I'm particularly interested in cables that opens up on the neckline, and, as I said, in mirrored cables. Could you, please, recommend some books in which I can find at least one of these 2 things? I've tried with japanese and with russian books, but still I did not find what I'm looking for... 😥😭
Thank you, I was looking for this technique! I wanted to do knit a honeycomb pattern without crossing over en thought about increases and decreases. I was just about to knit a sample and caught this video. I still want to knit a real cable and than after knitting the stitches that are not on the cable needle, slide them back onto the left needle and knit them again. Then I do this same with the stitches on the cable needle, knitting them twice. Hopefully that makes the twist of the cables less tight.
It is the easiest. Thank you so much! I lost the pattern and while I didn't want to stop working to look for the Mock cable pattern. Once found, it took just a few moments to review and I was off.
Excellent tutorial, thanks. Just what I was looking for to knit the instep of socks I am knitting. I need to practice on the larger mock cables. I was trying to learn how you hold your yarn - I am trying to switch to continental to relieve pain in my arms. Thank you, again.
There are two basic ways people hold the yarn when they knit continental (index finger extended, or index finger close to the needle). Which way you will want to hold the yarn will depend in large part on how you hold your needles. I sort of balance the needles against the edge of my hand, with my pinky and ring fingers resting against the needle to keep it in place. I'm not actually "holding" the needles. Because of the way the needles are levered against my hands, my index and middle fingers are free to manipulate the yarn and push sts along. Other people actually hold the needles with their fingers, which keeps them all close to the needle, which makes picking the yarn a different maneuver. So, if you're a natural finger extender, the way I knit might work for you. If you're a natural needle holder, my method will likely frustrate you! The other thing I do is that I tend to keep my right hand needle fairly still, and I mount the left needle onto the right needle. This is a holdover from when I knit English and anchored my 14'' needles against the junction of my hip and thigh. It's natural for me to keep that right needle still, so when I switched to continental, I automatically continued to mount sts onto the right hand needle.
It's often dependent on the publisher and how they set their standards. In come cases, a Right Cross or Left Cross simply refers to a stockinette-based cable that crosses right or left. In other cases, it might refer to cables where the number of sts is not even (e.g. 3 sts crossing 2 sts). Twists typically refer to *either* a 2-st cable (could be 1 k crossing 1 k or 1 k crossing 1 p) or any situation where any number of knits crosses some number of purls (as for traveling cables). Even when a publisher has a standard method of describing different types of cables, they might run out of unique abbreviations and end up violating their own standards.
for the mirror of that last 3-stitch mock cable, you can slip the first knit stitch, , then knit one, yarnover, knit one, and then pass the slipped stitch over all three of those. no pass and pass-back. :)
It's simpler, yes, but it does not produce the same result. The pass-back-and forth method surrounds the sts that are currently on the left needle so that when they are worked, the YO eyelet is visible, sitting above the passed-over stitch. (The passed over sts and the sts on the left needle are from the same row.) Your version passes the st over *after* the sts have been worked, so that it surrounds the sts just created. The passed over st surrounds sts a row above the row it was originally worked on. This holds the three sts together, and the YO eyelet is not visible.
Thank you so very much for your videos…. They are helpful and clear. I’m wondering what the mock cables look like on the wrong side. Are they reversible?
I do not. How you decrease depends on the individual cable and how frequently you need to decrease. One way to go about it is to continue doing the decreases of the mock cable, but eliminate the increases. The pattern for the purple hats is linked down in the video description. You can see how the decreases for the hat crown are handled in that pattern. Otherwise, as I said, it depends on the individual situation, just as it does with standard cables.
Any chance you can give details about the in between rows for the mock cable with the M1 R and SSK? I was unable to fully understand what you meant on the video for those rows
Here's an article I wrote on the same topic: www.interweave.com/article/knitting/no-fuss-mock-cables/. Also, here's a pattern for the hat: www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mock-me-gently
If you click on the gear icon, you can choose auto-translate, and then choose your language for closed captions. Turkish is one of the languages available.
Only thing confusing me was that she kept saying row when she meant column/stitches while explaining about why there's an eyelet in one and not in the other. I will try these mock cables out sometime. The smaller ones look pretty
