I found the cable I want to add to my pattern – it’s perfect and the EXACT number of stitches I’ll need for the saddle sleeve. What’s the problem you ask? Well, I’ll tell you.
I found it in the Barbara Walker Treasury #3 – the one with no patterns just charts – and I can’t for the life of me figure out the pattern! I’ve read the chapters on reading charts a million times, looked at all the little stitch icons and all I see now are squiggly lines in front of my face. I’m desperate.
So here’s the deal. I will give yarn and sheep cards (or flower cards, your choice) to the FIRST person who successfully translates this cable pattern for me. I can give you a picture of the cable, and a picture of the chart, but I can’t give you all of the stitch icons. What I’m looking for is the pattern written out.
It’s the cable on the right – called the Long Swinging Cable.
(Long Swinging Cable my ass!)
Don’t you think it will be perfect with the other cables (see entry below)? Oh – it’s on p.90 – Third Treasury.
Oh and all you Aran experts out there: it’s normal that my dk weight yarn – which should give me about 5 stitches to the inch is giving me about 7.5 over the cable pattern, right? I think this is good – it should take more stitches – especially because of the twists.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I don’t have the key to figure out exactly what the symbols are telling me to do. Is that the problem that you’re having?
The gauge thing: yes, it’s normal.
I’m typing it up for you! Since it’s late here, I probably won’t get it done until tomorrow morning.
Hey. Love those sheep cards. Okay, did you see the cable chart diagrams starting on page 61.
So, and I’ve never knitted this pattern so forgive me if I’m completely missing this, but for this pattern it looks like row 1 is a wrong side row, since all the cable crosses happen on even numbered rows.
Row 2 is going to be p2, sl 2 sts to cn and hold to front, p2, k2 from cn, p2, sl2 to cn and hold to back, k2, k2 from cn, p4.
Row 3 (ws): work patt as established (knit the knits and purl the purls)
Row 4: p4, k2, sl 2 sts to cn and hold to back, k2, p2 sts from cn, k2, p4, and so on. I’d be happy to type out the rest of it–let me know if that would help, but does that give you a sense?
This is going to be one hot and fabulous sweater!
Okay, you asked for the whole thing in the blog entry (read, cate, read!), so here it is:
Row 1 (ws): k2, p2, k4, p4, k4
Row 2: p2, sl 2 sts to cn and hold to front, p2, k2 from cn, p2, sl2 to cn and hold to back, k2, k2 from cn, p4.
Row 3 (ws) and all odd-numbered rows: work patt as established (knit the knits and purl the purls)
Row 4: p4, k2, sl 2 sts to cn and hold to back, k2, p2 sts from cn, k2, p4
Row 6: p4, sl2 sts to cn and hold to front, k2, k2 from cn, p2, sl2 to cn and hold to front, p2, k2 from cn, p2
Row 8: work patt as established
Row 10: p4, sl2 to cn and hold to front, k2, k2 from cn, p4, k2, p2
Row 12: work patt as established
Row 14: p4, sl2 to cn and hold to front, k2, k2 from cn, p2, sl2 to cn and hold to back, k2, p2 from cn, k2
Row 16: p4, k2, sl2 to cn and hold to front, p2, k2 from cn, k2, p4
Row 18: p2, sl2 to cn and hold to back, k2, p2 from cn, p2, sl2 to cn and hold to back, k2, k2 from cn, p4
Row 20: work patt as established
Row 22: p2, k2, p4, sl2 to cn and hold to back, k2, k2 from cn, p4
Row 24: work patt as established.
HTH!
Hey Cara! It looks like mamacate is correct, except for her WS rows which should just be reversed — that is Row 1 (WS) should be “k4, p4, k4, p2, k2”.
Thanks Felicia. Duh. I’m the kind of person who can’t work from written-out directions to save my life, so I totally didn’t think about the fact that she’s not making i-cord, LOL.
That would be really, really complicated i-cord.