Knitting Tip: Counting Cable Rows (and the Heather Hoodie Vest)

re: Knitting Tip: Counting Cable Rows (and the Heather Hoodie Vest)

ElonkaV — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:42:33 GMT

I m soooooo looking for the Heather hoodie pattern, please can someone help me?

re: Knitting Tip: Counting Cable Rows (and the Heather Hoodie Vest)

CaryS@3 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:58:26 GMT

I fell hard for this vest when I first saw it in the magazine at my LYS! Now, there are five us and counting who are starting the project together! Three are using the Lambs Pride, one is using Galway Chunky and I am using yarn spun from my own flock of Corriedale sheep. I am planning to lengthen my vest and also work the cap sleeve a bit differently, but otherwise leave it alone. It is a beautiful cable.

Thanks for a great tip to go along with this fall's cable knitting ;D

re: Knitting Tip: Counting Cable Rows (and the Heather Hoodie Vest)

AnnaliseO — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:41:45 GMT

When counting cable rows you include the stitches on your needles? In counting stockinette stitch rows you do not count the stitches on your needle (since that is a half row - as your diagram indicates) so I just wanted to make sure that I understood that correctly.

re: Knitting Tip: Counting Cable Rows (and the Heather Hoodie Vest)

DanaG@2 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:20:27 GMT

I tended to have trouble identifying the cable cross until I started to keep a split ring marker on the reverse side of my knitting. A cable pattern is usually framed by reverse stocking stitch. I therefore mark the back of my piece which is a knit stitch. This area is not usually distorted by the cable cross. The marked stitch is the first row of the cable pattern rows. I then can keep track of which row of the pattern I am on. If there is more than one set of cables, I use a different coloured marker. dana/upknitcreek

re: Knitting Tip: Counting Cable Rows (and the Heather Hoodie Vest)

AmyS@124 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:02:19 GMT

I am really adverse to using a bulky yarn, as I am already bulky, thank you very much! How would you go about adapting this to worsted weight? Thanks.

re: Knitting Tip: Counting Cable Rows (and the Heather Hoodie Vest)

Cecile Evansic — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:25:01 GMT

I've found the easiest, most reliable way to count rows is to lay a contrasting color piece of yarn over the first row you want to count as the starting row. The yarn should be placed between the stitches; just lay it over the last row of stitches. It will hang out both on the right and the back side of the work and can be easily removed to be used at the next row starting point

re: Knitting Tip: Counting Cable Rows (and the Heather Hoodie Vest)

AnaMarie — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:40:09 GMT

When counting after your cable crossing, remember that the stitches that make up the hole are the row BEFORE you crossed, and the first row after the hole (the one that goes across all the stitches in the new order) is the cross row. Just making it more clear that you don't count everything after the hole, but that the row closing the hole is the one that is your crossing row and you count everything after that.

In the illustration: The dark, light, dark row is the cable crossing, and the dark row the needle is under is the row that closes the hole, so not the one you count first.

re: Knitting Tip: Counting Cable Rows (and the Heather Hoodie Vest)

GerdaP — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:54:16 GMT

Thanks for the tip it is always inevitable that one of my cables is longer and I don't discover it until it is sewn up and I am wearing it, or my daughter Sheila notices right away!

re: Knitting Tip: Counting Cable Rows (and the Heather Hoodie Vest)

KBKnit@2 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:28:42 GMT

For those of you that have an iPhone, there's a couple great applications on iTunes for knitting. The first one is called StitchMinder. You can track rows completed, pattern rows, decrease row, and increase row. The other application is called KnittyBag where you can track your inventory of knitting needles and crochet hooks. They are free apps.

re: Knitting Tip: Counting Cable Rows (and the Heather Hoodie Vest)

Kymmiam — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:29:44 GMT

Kristin Roach is one of my knitting pals and I'm so excited to see her work being published! She's a rising rockstar--go Kristin!

re: Knitting Tip: Counting Cable Rows (and the Heather Hoodie Vest)

MelanieD — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:57:50 GMT

Just what I need today - a new skill! Thanks!

Oh, and may I just say how impressed I am at how fast Interweave Knits arrives here in Europe - more thanks!

re: Knitting Tip: Counting Cable Rows (and the Heather Hoodie Vest)

Leslie Hays-Mills — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:28:19 GMT

I LOVE the vest ! Would really prefer long sleeves. Any suggestions as to length to make and cuff cast on ?