This features a single 2-strand braid running all round it. It's knitted as one long strip and then the two ends are grafted together to form the band.
As I mentioned yesterday, I've been a lot busier with knitting in the past month than in the whole of last year.
So far this year I have started 6 projects and finished 3 of them. Compared to last year, in which I abandoned my one outstanding knitting project from the previous year and completed one smallish bit of crochet, that's pretty good going.
Interestingly, half of this year's projects so far feature cabling quite heavily. It's probably just as well (or just because) I happen to like cabling.
My first cabled project of the year was a headband:
This features a single 2-strand braid running all round it. It's
knitted as one long strip and then the two ends are grafted together
to form the band.
My other two cabling projects are both currently works in progress, and both feature slightly more exciting cable work.
Shortly after finishing the headband, I got cracking on an
antler cable scarf:
This is a type of cabling that I've not tried before. There are 2
crossings on every right-side row - one with the stitches held behind
the work (so that the cable crosses to the right) and the other with
the stitches held in front (so the cable crosses to the left). In
addition, the cables and the background fabric are all in stocking
stitch so that the cables blend more into the background (more
commonly, cabling is done against a reverse stocking stitch background
for greater contrast) and the cables are not continuous but snake out
from the centre to the edge and fade out as the next cable begins. It
is, I think, a very pleasing effect.
One of the other projects I completed recently was a pair of socks
(about which I'll blog more tomorrow) and, having finished them I
wanted to get straight on with another pair but, for the sake of
variation, I wanted to avoid the 2x2 rib that has characterised the
body of all my successfully completed socks to date. I decided to
have a go at cabled socks:
These are essentially 4x2 rib, with the knit parts of the rib cabled.
I am working them from the toe up. At present the first sock is
finished apart from the heel and the second one is about halfway up
the foot, with the leg, heel and toe still to do. As a cunning design
feature (borrowed from the slipper
socks I designed and made a couple of years ago), the cables on
one sock go in the opposite direction from those on the other sock. I
don't yet have any photos of the second sock to demonstrate this, but
I hope to get some soon.
That's it for this year's cable projects so far. I don't yet have any more lined up, although if I manage to keep my knitting going beyond the next few weeks I suspect a few more cables will find their way in. Tomorrow I'll give some more details of the other projects I've been working on this year.
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