All About Cables
by Gwen Bortner
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All About Cables
by Gwen Bortner
Learn all about cables while creating this fabulous cable knit bag. The project begins with simple cable patterns and progresses to more complex styles while working on only one panel at a time. Made with bulky yarn, the over-sized cables felt down to a wonderfully textured yet sturdy purse fabric. Directions for either a drawstring or knapsack style closure included.
Skills Required:
- Basic knitting skills
- Working in the round including using DPN
Skills Covered:
- Creating cables with a cable needle
- Creating single stitch twists without a cable needle
- Using a chart for a pattern stitch
- Making a wide buttonhole
- Joining panels as you work
- Decreasing techniques
- Felting basics
About this pattern
About this yarn
by Brown Sheep
Bulky
85% Wool, 15% Mohair
125 yards
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113
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