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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[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.