Chevron and Cable Scarf Pattern

[neadods]

Cable and Chevron Scarf knitting pattern (pdf)

Mind you, I call it that so that knitters who've been bleeping over the Sherlock posts might give it a click, because it is the Watson Jumper Scarf. But if you don't know Sherlock from a steamshovel, it's still a very nice, gender neutral scarf pattern.

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[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I saw it modelled on the Baker St Supper Club website, too. It is indeed of the awesome. I love 'stealth fandom' knitting like that, and I was wondering how long before we saw variations on John's cuddly sweater.

Ganking the PDF juuuust in case I ever get to the point in my knitting career where I could churn out something in a cable stitch. (I r teh n00b.)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I made an LJ feed for the supper club (bakerst_supper)- I'd like to spend more (read: any) time on the forums, but at least now I know when it's updated!

I haven't done a lot of cable. However, if you can find a copy (Amazon is not providing; it must be out of print) I can't sing enough praises for Vogue Knitting Stitchionary volume 2, Cables. It divides cables into type (starting with "easy") and for every pattern there is a photo, chart, and written instructions (including what the cable abbreviations mean for every single pattern - you don't have to flip to an index). Best, the abbreviation is how you hold the stitches, not how the cable goes: tell me "cable four left" and I'm "dur?" Tell me "cable four front" and that makes complete sense! Even nicer for those of us who try to design a bit, the photos are of swatches, not a detail of a larger piece, so you can see how much any given pattern will pull.

All this and there are 202 different cable patterns/variations.

If you can lay your hands on the thing - It's ISBN 1-931543-89-5 - it's worth its weight in gold for making cables understandable.

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

I want that book. Want want want.

Also useful when learning cables is knitting something like Fetching. The cables aren't huge, and you get lots of practice on a small piece of work that is then immediately useful.

Fetching: http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/PATTfetching.html

(I recommend a second set of cables at the knuckles, and not doing the picot edge. But that's me.)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Yes, you do want it. Come drool at my copy sometime.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

MEEP WANT.

I shall have to be on the lookout for it. It may be OP, but it sounds like the sort of thing that would occasionally come up second-hand.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I didn't check half.com. They usually have OP books for a good price.

[firiel44.livejournal.com]

Cables are so dead easy, once you try it you will feel silly that you were ever nervous of them. And yet they look so impressive that even people who know how to do cables ooh and aah over them.

My best cabling tip is to work several rows past doing the cable twist before you panic that it looks terrible. Because, frankly, it looks terrible right after you twist those stitches. Everything is all bunched up and stretched funny and it needs a few plain rows to get over that. Also, if you tend to have tight gauge, you'll need to loosen up or the cable row will be absolute misery to knit. (Ask me how I know!)

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link; I've been rewatching Sherlock on its Masterpiece run, and I was eying the jumper to size up the pattern.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I think someone on Ravelry had started reverse-engineering the jumper from the moment the show first aired! But a scarf is far more my speed than a sweater is.

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

I've mapped out the sweater, since PBS.org had the episode on their very pausable website. I've just not done the swatching/gauge maths yet to get it going.

I looked at at least one version of the sweater on Ravelry, and I think they've Done It Wrong. So I want to do my own version. :-)

[firiel44.livejournal.com]

Granted, the chevron chart isn't perfect, but overall it's a nice version. Adjusting the charts would have played merry hell with the stitch count, so I went with it. (Also, I'm almost finished with it and not going back!) I'll be interested to see yours, though.

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

*blush*

Hi. Look, it's the Internets!

It is a good interpretation of the sweater. I also think the chevrons are a bit wonky, and spent most of my time starting at the screen trying to sort out how those chevrons got to look the way they did. I think I've sorted it out, and will play with it once I've gotten past the Christmas knitting.

[firiel44.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the chevrons are definitely reverse stockinette, not seed stitch, and I think it's wrong with how the chart lines up with the cables. If I had noticed the cable row difference before I started, I would have changed which row I started the pattern on. But I've spent so much time with the pattern now that we're besties. We're getting BFF bracelets as soon as I sew on the sleeves. ;)

I did a lot of squinting at the screen and came up with a chart that's basically texturedknitter's chart, but with an odd number of stitches. It seems kind of narrow, but I get the same count every time. Probably blocking will open it out a bit.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Technically the scarf is wrong - no buffer between cables - but it's close enough!

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

*jumps up and down*

EEEEE! EeeeEEEeEEEEE!

Thank you!