Norah Gaughan's Knitted Cable Sourcebook: A Breakthrough Guide to Knitting with Cables and Designing Your Own

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Abrams, 2016 M10 11 - 276 pages
A groundbreaking stitch dictionary from a cable master, featuring 150 cable stitch patterns and fifteen garment patterns to test your skills.

This guide for the modern knitter presents more than 150 new and innovative cable stitch patterns ranging from basic to complex and offers enlightening insight into how cables are engineered, how knitters can design their own, and how knitters can mix and match cables in a knitting pattern. Teacher, author, and master knitter Norah Gaughan shares her design principles and offers clear cable-making instruction throughout, always in a conversational, easy-to-understand voice that proceeds naturally, as one cable idea leads to the next. Master the art of cable knitting, then test your newfound skills with the fifteen garment patterns for wraps, sweaters, and accessories.
 

Contents

Drawing
22
Ropes Braids
25
GROUP 12
32
GROUP 3
39
Projects
50
Expanding PAGE 122
54
GROUP 4
77
Mega Rib Braid
84
136 Knots
136
Rib Share Lattice Variations PAGE
149
GROUP 4
158
GROUP 5
168
GROUP 6
180
Hexa Variations PAGE
197
Rearranging XS PAGE
209
GROUP 7
210

Swing Diamonds
91
GROUP 7
97
GROUP 9
104
GROUP 11
110
Free Ogee
122
130 Hexa Bead
130
GROUP 2
239
Sinuous Lines PAGE
242
Mirroring PAGE
248
Abbreviations PAGE
274
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About the author (2016)

Norah Gaughan has served as design director for Berroco Yarns and JCA Yarns, designed for Adrienne Vittadini, and published patterns in all the leading knitting and textile magazines. She is the author of Knitting Nature, Comfort Knitting & Crochet: Afghans, and Comfort Knitting & Crochet: Babies & Toddlers.

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