gave welcome to it on today we're going to be talking more about cables we've done basic cables and gone over some of the fibers that are used in some of the equipment that is used and today we're going to continue talking about cables but we're going to get a little more complex as this show goes on so bear with me and none of it is brain surgery any of you out there that have made it for a while would be able to do these things and we're going to be demonstrating as i said some different techniques having to do with cables as we've discussed in the previous show cables are simply where a cable needle is used and this would be one type that is available and stitches are moved on to the cable needle and then either move to the front or the back of the work in order to make the stitches twist to the left or the right having said that sometimes we're going to do things a little more than just twist to the left or the right in this sample as you can see this is called a honeycomb pattern and it is where we take a series of very simple cables but we repeat that time after time after time in order to get this effect and you can see  that with most cables that needed stitches are going to be coming towards you and catching the eye and the poor old stitches are going to recess themselves and sit more toward the back one of the great things about this ditch which is different than most cables is that if we turn this around we still have honeycomb so this is what is considered a reversible cable and as i said most cables hold up a different one for you very quickly here most cables are not going to be reversible this one happens to be a braided cable but i'm going to be demo wing in just a little while but if i flip that over you can see that that most definitely has a wrong side to it and that the wrong side really do it's not look like much except a wrong side so let's go ahead and talk about this honeycomb a little bit and then we'll talk a little bit about you know the application is for a reversible cable might might be what's going to happen is that we always have our edge stitch which i'm going to knit and you can see that if we isolate this if i put my thumb up across there basically what is happening on that vertical section is that the stitches are moving in more which they did last then moved out word now we're going to move them back in which means that those two knitted stitches are going to come onto my cable needle and slide off and be held and then i'm going to come in to pearl the next two then i will net the two that i held on the cable needle and because i held them to the front they're going to cross to my left which is bringing in them toward the middle of that segment and you can see how that moved them to the left so now i want to move to that it stitches to that middle which for them would be to the right which means that the two pearled stitches are going to need to be held to the back the knitted stitches then my pearl stitches so we're working across that two cable section for each of these but really doing just one section isn't going to give you much effect you can see if we just look at that section it really is just a cable but it's sort of making those circles where you really start picking up that effect is when you sit them side by side or cross so you're really going to want to be doing you know three or four or five at least sections of this in order to be able to get this really great honeycomb effect this is a great cable to be used with other  cables a basic cable where you're taking to over two and always just crossing in front crossing in front you know a wider cable that maybe is more of a braid or what have you this is a great cable to use as a section of knitting as long as you use several repeats of it it's also great to use in and of itself if you did say for instance something where you were going to see both sides of it such as a scarf or a blanket or what have you you can see how about would have an advantage to it certainly but you would be able to then not worry about seeing the opposite side of it the opposite side of it is just as lovely as the front so that's something that's going to of course be to be advantage when we use this stitch it's really a classic stitch you'll see it even in vintage cable  knitting magazines from the fifty's and sixty's would even include this one because it is a classic stitch so we've worked a little over half of that row and you can see how now those are all coming in to the center of those two then of course when we work up a little bit further then they're going to be moving back away from each other in order to accomplish that sequence so that's how we would  do those and that's how that effect is accomplished and you can see it's really no more than crossing those two stitches it's just a matter of which way are they crossing in order to be able to get better effect so we talked a little bit about being reversible and as knitters we sometimes come up with ideas and there is a designer called lily chin who i believe was the first one who really came up with the idea of playing around with stitches a little bit and making them more reversible as far as cables are concerned and you might be able to find a pattern that she put out i believe it's from lion brand if you go into their website she did cabled afghan pattern that is completely where simple as as we said honeycomb this one of those stitches that would be incorporated in that because it in it is by nature reversible what i've also done for you today is to set up another kind of cable that we can do as a reversible and you can see it looks as though it is the stock and that stitch cable on a garter stitch background but if i turn that around it looks the same on the back as well and the happens is and of course carter stitch is reversible because you're throwing those pearl bombs always to the to the back so each row is going to be flat on the front but then it's your turn of course that's coming forward so you're always going to have a bump from the previous so i'll do my four garter stitches then i'm going to slide i've actually forgotten how many i put on for i believe it's see what in the rows previous that they cross to the left that means that we're going to pull them to the front then i'm going to go ahead and net one pearl one for those six stitches that are on the needle and because we didn't even in those two sections of the cable it's net one prolonged we're going to begin within it and with a pearl and then the six stitches that we had on our cable needle we'll start with a net so that puts us in the right sequence because we ended with a pearl so there we have our net pearl across th so that that cable then becomes two sided the twist itself is going to be a two sided there isn't any difference because we are using stitches that you can view from the front or the back so the twist itself is going to be two sided and then we end that with or garter stitch garter stitch of course is sort of the queen of the reversible stitches and that's the one that most of us start out our knitting journey with is a garter steps so you can see when i don't fuss with that that just presents those knitted stitches to the front you don't really see the pearls that are in between and that's the beauty of doing that is that then either side so you can see if we were to put you know it's going to be two different colors and i've pulled part of the knitting off of the needles in order to be able to use it but you can see if we were to do something like a blanket if we put those next to each other and it was all one yarn and being made it across the row you can see how those two things would complement each other and be reversible and be able to be used together in a pattern so that's what we think of as being a reversible rib is the ones that we can can view from both sides another cable that i brought in for you to see today is a braided cable and this happens to be one of my favorites i use this a great deal when i was singing for passion this which is the company that does felted handbags we did it a great deal as the strap on handbags because it has that little bit of interest and has a great deal of resilience to it because it has a lot of twists in it it doesn't stretch because the twists are in there and fold things sort of tight and it's going to be done over a sequence of three stitches meaning a multiple of three so this one i have set up as nine stitches and you can see the difference here as that things are crossing both directions everything's going to be pulled to the middle pulling everything to the middle in order to accomplish that and that's exactly what you're going to be doing with this cable is that those stock in that stitch verdict goals are going to be pulled to the middle so it's just a matter of the left side being pulled to the middle the right side being pulled to the middle and at what point you know are you taking turns with the left and the right and making sure that that braid is being accomplished in the right way you can see that our last one came to the middle from the left which means that this one is going to be coming in from the right so i'm going to be dealing with these three stitches because i have a series of nine and we're using them as three three and three so i'm going to work across my reverse stock and that here and in order to take the use first three minutes to just to the middle they need to cross to my left which means i hold them to the front i'm at the next three and then the three that are on my cable needle so you can see even though about some more complex cable it's really dealing with three stitches at a time and just keeping track of which direction they need to move when we come back after the break we're going to talk about travelling stitches a little bit different than a cable but still doable so come on back i'm 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one row of these and you get more of that garden trellis sort of effect but i'm going to show you how these stitches now are going to travel as opposed to just winding around each other we're going to be using a cable n pearled stitch i do and knit and it's a great background for these cabled stitches because it gives some visual interest and you can see i am to the two stuck in that stitch stitches and they are going to be coming toward the center but they're only going to be traveling one stitch and so i cross them over and in the center i have been doing reverse stockinette which you can see is all pearled in the center to give it a different look than the seed stitch that is on the outside so when this is crossing over to the right it's going to become part of the seed stitch so it needs to be a minute then i do that too from the cable needle that are part of the trellis so they've crossed over one stitch then i'm going to do that reverse stock and that that's in the center and then bring the two left hand stock and that stitches to the center meaning holding that center stitch of the back ok and there again that is going to become part of our seat stitch which is on the outside of our trellis so this one is a little more complex in that you're changing everything a little bit as it move those stitches that are being moved around or growing from seed stitch to of our stock in it so this is one that you would have to pay a little more attention to as you're as you're doing it but certainly doable and on the back the same thing as we've always talked about the back you're not going to be doing any cabling it's just going to be a matter of remembering rather you're on your sleeve stitch portions or rather you're on your stockinette and reverse stockinette stitch portions and you can see on the back as we've talked about most cables are not reversible this one would not be i mean that doesn't really have nearly as much this year old visual interest as we would have on the front but the back side is going to just be and then our reverse so it's as easy as just following along visually and there we go again there is our pearl and the second one and then we go back to our seats  so you just were read those stitches as you come to them in order to be able to get that effect and as i said sometimes a trellis is going to be more than one set of these set side by side you can really get a very wide trellis and have it be you know much more visual impact to it and be set in with other cable stitches as well some patterns are going to be very complex and have you know lots of vertical rows of different things put together so that's what a travelling stitch is going to look like another thing that's started becoming very popular because we think of cables always being very vertical and because we're working vertically in a project what started to come out a bit in some newer patterns and i think it's very exciting especially since you know cables have been around such a long time it's a classic and  there's always a lot of interest when something new is done with a classic and one of the things that we're seeing is a way of doing we're seeing we're seeing some cables being put in borders on old fashion and the way that that is done a hold up a couple of the patterns that i happen to have that feature of that the way that that's being done and i'll point this out you can see our cross the bottom of this is the cable that is being worked or is on a and what happens with that is they've done that one section worked it and it would have been this would have been like the castro on the edge here it would have been worked this way the whole length of this and then stitches are picked up along those side edges so that it set into the gone moment horizontally here's another one that i happen to have and you can see in that in stance how the cable is around that yoke at the shoulder and that cable is going or is on only as well so in order to accomplish that i have a bit of a cable set up here this is the one that we did that was the braid and i thought i would show you how about would be accomplished where you pick up those stitches and then that away from them sometimes that's going to be done along one of the those edges and sometimes it's going to be done along both of those edges that would just depend on the garment that you were doing in the instructions that you have that first jacket that i picked up where the cable runs along the bottom they actually picked up from one side and knitted for a certain number of rows and then created a hem so that there's a stock in that stitch section at the bottom which is the hem and then the rest of the garment is knitted up from there and when you do that they are going to tell you how many stitches you need to pick up along that edge they're going to tell you to knit this section a certain number of inches and then pick up a certain number of stitches along this edge in order to be able to create a nice event effect you're going to need to mark for yourself a certain number of encouragements that you can do that i would advocate depending on how long this section is going to be especially for the hem of a coat you're probably going to need to break that down into apes if not sixteenth in order to accomplish that and what i mean by that is let's say for instance that's a forty inch segment across the bottom of that hand you're going to market the twenty which would be your half way point and then break that down into smaller sections more doable sections so that you know that if you need let's just make life easy and say you need to pick up four hundred stitches a long bad forty inch section that how many stitches you need to pick up in each of those quarters or eighths or sixteenth so that you can get those really very evenly spaced because that's going to be really very important in the finish of this garment and obviously if you're doing something like this it's a more complicated garment and you want it to be really bare you know very beautiful when you have it finished so that all of your time it isn't wasted so we'll just go ahead and approve ten that this is a section say for instance that we need to pick up twenty stitches and what you'll need to remember to is  wider than it is long and because we have this turned on its side the stitch that we are picking up is wider than that row is going to be so you're going to be picking up generally speaking either to sit every three rows or three stitches to every four brightest depending and you'll be able to figure that out once you have your markers  so what we do is we put the needle in and we never just take one strand we always take at least two so that it doesn't stretch that out i go into the next one with the needle in wrap it is the one that and pull it up and i've used a contrast color here so you can see that more easily i'm going to do two to three just to give you an idea of what i mean by that so i think for the first two i've gone a stitch in each row i'm going to skip one that would be my third rows so that way i have two stitches in three rows so in the fourth row i would pick up a stitch and obviously if you're doing this at home you would not have this working knitting needle hanging out of here in your way since this is a swatch that still there ok so i pick up two and there is my third row so i skip it i go  pick up that stitch pick up the next it and i skip the third but as i said depending on your instructions you'll be able to  see what works for you but generally speaking it's going to be less stitches than you had rows because of the way were o's are not as high as a knitted stitch is why it's a little bit garment and there again you know you might be doing that on the opposite side as well obviously with this sample that would be a good idea because that's on our reverse stockinette so it wants to roll ok you could and we have on certain things especially over a passion that's used that cable right on an edge which gives you a really nice effect because it has more of us galloped effect so that's another another thing that you might want to keep in mind is that that braided cable can sometimes sit right on that edge and give you that scallop which is really great i brought in a couple of things that i've worked on in the past for you to see and see how cables can be worked into your garments this is a baby blanket that i did put my hand underneath  because it presents a little better that way it has cables as well as some lace work so you can see that that gives you a really great effect the lace and the cables together something that that we might not think of is sort of those oppos thing because this is very light and this is a little denser and it gives you that visual interest well i'd like to thank everybody here at peter's township high school this is the end of my fourth year of taping here it's been a great experience and i love all the help that they have given me great