How to Knit a Cable Heart.
Hi, Guys! I'm Kristen and today on Studio Knit we are
knitting up this cable heart knit stitch pattern. It has an interlocking design
it's a classic project for Valentine's Day and perfect all year round.
The interlocking hearts are vertical and these panels can be knitted up for a lot
of fun projects. I think that the hearts would look great as a scarf and multiple
panels, they can be pieced together to create a blanket of any size.
It's always fun to see the cable design emerge as you knit it up and these hearts make an
extra special project filled with love. And here is how the cable pattern looks
on the right side of the work and this is what it looks like on the wrong.
And if you're in the mood for love, I have some more great heart patterns
that you'll want to check out. I have puffy hearts softies. I also
have some lace heart patterns, as well as a pillow, another cute little heart
project that you make with i-cords, even some knitting-inspired cupcake treats.
For your materials you can use absolutely any yarn and corresponding
knitting needles of your choice. Here I'm using size 11 with number 5
bulky weight yarn. Of course you'll need a cable needle I'm just using a
double pointed needle that I painted pink on the ends to help you differentiate them
from my regular knitting needles as I demonstrate the cable stitch patterns.
And, of course, scissors and a tapestry needle. We have a garter stitch edge
right here because the base is reverse stockinette and if you are familiar with
stockinette you know that it tends to curl up. Here is the back so you can sort
of see that classic stockinette stitch on the back. So the garter stitch on the
side helps it lay a little bit flat. It still does tend to curl up a bit so you
may want to block this. the width of your scarf depends on the yarn and needles
that you use in my example here it's about 7
inches wide you'll definitely need to get the pattern it's over on my website
totally free on my website page and if you would like the PDF printable version
all you need to do is sign up for my mailing list there are six different
cable stitches in this pattern and I've created a color-coded system it easily
helps you discern the different cable stitches as you go along it's also great
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So let's knit it up we begin
of course with our beloved Slip Knot and from there we are going to use long tail
cast on method just really simple and we're going to be casting on for this
pattern a total of just 24 stitches now once you have all 24 stitches I am going
to be creating a garter edge so that's just knitting and I'm doing four rows of
the knit stitch to get started so that I have a nice sturdy edge on the bottom
you can totally skip this step you can do two rows, four rows, or even more
whatever you'd like and this is what my four rows of knitting for my garter edge
looks like and I am ready to get started on my cabling so you'll need the pattern
as I mentioned here it begins with some knits and purls and I'm going to be
demonstrating the cable stitches so that as you go along if you have any
questions on exactly what to do you can refer to this video at any time so the
first one we encounter is C4B that means that we take our cable needle
we take two stitches and we take it to the back our
needle is in the back and then it's k2 from our main needle so holding that
cable needle in the back we are going to knit two stitches from our main knitting
needle pretending like that cable needles not even there and now we switch
and from the cable needle we are going to knit two stitches and if cabling is
new to you this might be a little bit of a challenge but I know you're totally up
for it just systematically go through the pattern stitch by stitch and you
will see you're pretty hard emerge it's really cool now the next one is C4F
that means that we're holding the cable needle to the front so we take those two
stitches we hold the cable needle to the front we pretend like it's not even
there as we knit two stitches from our main knitting needle and then we take
the cable needle and sometimes it's a little bit of a stretch
and you knit two stitches directly off your cable needle and then you just
continue on with the knits and purls in the pattern here is how it's shaping up
this is our even row I just wanted to point out that the even rows are
knitting the knits and purling the purls if that's something that you're
familiar with, then it's great, you can just go ahead and you don't have to
refer to the pattern you can easily knit those knit stitches and right there you
see those little purl stitches and you just go along on all of the even rows
knitting the knits and purling the purls. Okay our third cable stitch that we
encounter in the pattern is CR4B okay so that means cable right 4 back so
taking two stitches and holding the cable needle to the back and then
because we are knitting we need to bring that yarn to the back and off of
our main knitting needle we are going to knit
two stitches right here from our main knitting needle and once we've completed
that we take our cable needle and we're going to be purling two stitches from
the cable needle so we'll bring our yarn into the front and this is another one
that requires a little bit of a stretch it can be a little bit of a tight
squeeze but you are in control of the yarn you will make it happen and you
just purl those two stitches right there off of your cable needle
okay we're halfway there our fourth cable needle it's CL4F so we're
taking the cable and we're holding it to the front and we're going to be purling
two stitches off of our main knitting needles to begin with
and then we bring our yarn to the back because we are taking our cable needle
and we are going to knit two stitches from the cable needle and let's take a
minute to admire our work now already after just three rows of our cable
stitch our heart is starting to emerge it's the bottom part of the heart and
let's keep going so our fifth cable stitch is CR3B back so we are taking just
one stitch on our cable needle and holding it to the back and then we are
knitting two stitches right here from our main needle and then we're gonna
finish it up with that one stitch from the cable needle
we take our yarn of course we need to bring it to the front because this is a
purl stitch and we purl it once right here off of our cable needle again
that's another little tight squeeze to accomplish that stitch and I want to
show you right here in the middle you know there's that pretty little cable
that runs up the middle of the hearts and this is a stitch that we've already
done but I just want to point out that we are doing this twice to accomplish
that and the first time is here on row five okay final cable stitch to review
so it is CR3F that is holding two stitches on our cable needle in the
front and then it's just one purl stitch off of our main needle right here and
we're going to bring our yarn around to the back because we finish it up with
the cable needle and it's two stitches off the cable needle this one's a little
bit of a stretch it's not too tight following along with the pattern this is
a pretty simple cable once you get the hang of it and it just makes me so happy
seeing all of these hearts emerge cable knitting always feels really satisfying
because you get these great designs you just keep on going to
get that inner locking heart look and I hope you are inspired to knit up your
own cable knit hearts thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time, guys.
BYE!