cables! wee!

[kiwikitti]

I love when I end up making myself try new stitches! I decided to try out a cabled scarf but of course had never ever done the fpdc or bpdc or any such thing. Thankfully, I have several crochet books on hand to teach me this since the pattern didn't tell me how. I think I restarted that thing 5 times in this pretty dusky rose caron 1 lb yarn. I restarted it in a sterling silver brush acrylic and am now in absolute love with how it looks. SO professional!

 

 

Oh.... this is the pattern and really good for if you are just starting those front posts at the least! http://www.knitandcrochettoday.com/pdf/cablescarf.pdf

 

It really is a good starting pattern, at least in my opinion.

[hooked2]

It is a nice looking pattern (thanks for sharing)! And the color of the one in the photo is very rich! What color yarn did you use?

[kiwikitti]

I used Caron Dazzle Aire. My fiancee's father picked a bunch of it (well 3-4 skeins in 3 colors, including the silver grey I'm using). I love it and wish they still made it! It kind of makes it look like a natural really rich animal type yarn.

[pryor208]

Cute! I tried to do a crocheted cable scarf once a few weeks ago and couldn't make it work fast enough for me, so I gave up. I might just have to try again. The site you shared also has a pattern for a cute afghan out of hexagon grannies, very cool looking!

[Kiirs]

Congratulations! I LOVE cables. I'm working on one of Crochet Garden's awesome cable scarves right now. It's slow going because it's double-sided, but I love it. An acquaintance saw me working on it last week and was shocked--"You can crochet CABLES?" she said. She is a crocheter, too, but now primarily a knitter, and had no idea it was possible in crochet. She thought it was the coolest thing.

 

Edit to add: Thanks for that link!! I printed off one of those patterns a few months ago, but I did not realize it was a new PBS show. I've just written to my local stations to ask them to add it. What a cool show!!!

[CrochetDad]

I LOVE cables! Once you do them, they're not so intimidating. I'd like to make a project that has cables on BOTH sides. I haven't seen that yet with crochet.

[kazily]

I hope you'll share a pic of yours when it's done. I just started this scarf too. I'm familiar with how to do fp & bp stitches but have never crocheted cables before. I started with a blue color caron & I didn't like it so now I'm trying a swatch with a RH light brown color.

Still not sure if this is the yarn I'll use but I may keep going. It is really slow going with making the cables. I guess it gets faster once you're used to the pattern?

[jura2908]

last month i did one of the reversible cabled scaves from crochet garden. the thread is here . i love the end product. her designs were my first venture into crocheting cables. now i am hooked. the pack so much wow factor in a finished product. i still have to do the matching hat.

 

thanks for sharing the link. i have printed it and added it to my to do binder.

 

Nadine

[kiwikitti]

kazily--Once I got the pattern down it went a thousand times faster. The pattern I chose (and I'm use most others!) just repeats over and over. Once I memorized the lines and pattern, which kind of happens after so many repeats!, I can just speed right through it. I think if I had worked straight on it, a 3 oz skein took me probably about 3-4 hours to do but i've been working on it a little bit over several days. And maybe it would have taken someone else a bit quicker but I can get obsessive over my stitches at times which takes up time.

 

Now, I need to get enough yarn to do a wrap I saw at the Caron website. As soon as I saw it AND saw it looked perfect with it's cables, I knew it was on the "NEED TO DO" list! http://caron.com/projects/ss_heather/CN0995_cabled_wrap.html

Here is that pattern if anyone is interested.

[darski]

I would really like to get more adventurous with my crochet cables. there are so many possibilities ...

 

so much yarn, so many patterns, so little time

[purlwise]

That is a great pattern! I love trying the new stitches too! Why do they looks so hard and when you try them they are so easy!

[Kiirs]

I saw the booklet "63 Cable Stitches to Crochet" at JoAnn Fabric's. It's by Leisure Arts. Does anyone have this book, and do you like it? I put it on my Christmas list.

[kiwikitti]

If I recall right I think there might have been a CAL started with that book, "63 Cable Stitches to Crochet". I don't know if it is still going on but there is that chance so I know SOMEONE on the board has it!