Here's how to do a reversible cable. You can see that this is a four-stitch cable, two knit stitches, twist over, two other knit stitches, but let's look at the back. We've got the same thing. It's completely reversible. Oh my gosh, it's so cool and it's really easy too. So the trick to doing a reversible cable, which by the way looks really nice, you could do a giant one as a scarf or you could do, you could do cables like this on a scarf. The secret is that this is ribbed. This swatch is ribbed right here. You can see that I'm alternating here between knit and purl stitches, knit, purl, knit, purl, knit, purl all the way down this swatch. And ribbing just happens to sort of tighten up and only display the knit stitches. And so because of that, there are knit stitches on both sides and purl stitches there's ribbing on both sides basically because ribbing is reversible and so the cable is reversible as well. And you can do this with any number of stitches. I decided to do with eight stitches. These four are the ones that cross over and these four are the ones that go behind. So the wider you do it the more difficult it's going to be. But let's go ahead and I'm going to show you how to do it. So cast on, let's see how many do I have. Let's count by five so it's fast. Five, ten, 14 stitches, right? I have 14 stitches casted on. Go ahead and work as much as you want in ribbing at least about four rows of knit one per one ribbing. And then we're going to cross these stitches like that. It's going to lean to the right like that. So this is what we're going to do. We're going to work in ribbing up to the cable. Knit one, purl one like this. All right. Now it's time to cable. These stitches right here, these four stitches need to be held to the back of the work while we work these stitches right here. And for that you're going to need a cable needle. And I don't have a cable needle because I never use one because I cable with that one. So I'm going to use this other needle. Okay, which you can do if you need to, but you can use a double-pointed needle which I don't know why you'd have those either, but you can use a cable needle. Remember this, go ahead and slip four stitches like this. Just purl wise from tip to tip onto your cable needle or extra needle. And let's see, I'm just going to slide that extra needle to the back there. See what I did there? I'm just going to, I'm holding those four stitches in the back just like a regular two-stitch cable or two crossing two cable. All right. So hold those in the back and we're going to work in rib across these four stitches right here. There we go. Tighten that up right there. So knit purl knit purl. Now if you have a cable needle, you can just go ahead and work straight off the stitches back there. You can just knit starting from this end. I can't. So I'm just going to go ahead and put these back on like this, holding that step to the front. And you can do this too if your cable needle is like one of those metal ones from Joanne's that it's not that front and knit off of. You can go like this and just transfer the stitches back onto the left hand needle from the extra needle. So no matter what, no matter what you have, you'll be able to do this reversible cable. All right. Now we need to go ahead and work in ribbing along these four stitches right here. Knit purl it's going to be a little bit, oops, haha, what did I tell you? Let's see. We do that one already? Yes we did. Okay. Saved it. Okay that was in that stitch right there. How has I was saying? This is going to be a little bit tight because we did just cross four stitches over four other stitches. So if you think about in regular cabling terms, that's like an eight stitch cable. So it's not small. So that part right there is going to be a little bit of a jam until we work a few more rows. All right. Let's now work about four more rows in ribbing and see how it looks. All right. There's our cross that's starting to look really nice, but the more we work in ribbing, the better it's going to look. So work some more rows and I'll meet you back here. Here's how our swatch looks with four more rows of ribbing. You can see that cable is really starting to stand out beautifully and reversibly, completely reversible. How awesome is that? So just keep going. This eight stitch cable, I like to do six plain rows, three knit rows, and three pro rows before I cable again. So let's see where was the cable row? I bet it is right here. Right there is right there. So let's see. One, two, three, four, five. I did a pro row, a knit row, a pro row, a knit row, and a pro row. And I'm back to knitting. So let's see, do we have... Okay. So we do... If the pro row right after the cable counts as part of the cable, then we do six plain rows. So we've done that. That's part of the cable. Then we go, we've got one, two, three, four. We need to do another two, and then it would be time to do the cable again. And also you can notice that it really does pull in the fabric quite a bit. Ribbing already pulls in, this is going to pull it in even more. So make sure that you leave like a big border on both sides and it'll look a lot better. This can also be paroled by the way. This can be reverse stuck in stitch right here, whatever you want to make the cable stand out, but there's your two sided cable. Yay! Go try it right now!