Yarnification

Comment by Princsstrish

11/20/2006 @ 11:00 am

Yes, you can do cables without the aforementioned “cable needle”. In fact, i was working one of my first knitting projects and got so impatient that I used a steelite susan bates crochet hook to hold my stitches! You can actually use anything you want to hold those stitches to the front of the back. I always put them back on my needle before knitting them anyways, so don’t have to worry about knitting them off of the cable needle (too awkward to me). You can used a pen, a hair stick, a straight needle, a crochet hook, pretty much anything you can get the stitches on and off of from both ends! Good luck, cables are easy peasy once you learn! :)

Comment by Stacy

11/20/2006 @ 11:24 am

I haven’t made an attempt to cable yet. The whole cable needle idea had me intimated, and our JoAnn’s doesn’t have them either. I’m glad you figured out the purl thing and can’t wait to see your wristwarmers. Both sets.:)

Comment by Marvie

11/21/2006 @ 3:51 am

Hehe I was doing it wrong at first too. I can’t even remember exactly how I did it back then, those many months ago *g* but it was something weird anyway lol. Videos helped a lot =) Glad you got it worked out!

Trish is right, you can use anything to cable. The main thing is just to hold the stitches in back or front while you work the others, then I do like Trish said and stick them back on the main needle to knit them, rather than knit off the cable needle. I haven’t tried doing wihtout a cacle needle yet, but I understand it can be done….