How to knit reversible cable ribbles.
Hi, I'm Kristen and welcome back to my channel, Studio Knit.
Have you ever wished that your cable patterns
looked identical on both sides of your work?
Ribbles are rib and cables,
a double-sided rib stitch cable texture.
When knitting reversible cables,
the background texture will also be a reversible stitch.
We're using the garter stitch background,
along with the one-by-one rib stitch,
and the seed stitch.
We're using a ribbing technique
that creates the reversible cable texture.
It pulls in the stitches with purl stitches
hidden within the knit stitches on both sides.
In all the examples,
we're using a 4/4 right-slanting rope cable stitch.
Here is a standard one-sided,
and you can see that the cable stitch pops
on the right side of our work,
but when we turn it over to the wrong,
it is not identical on the back, the wrong side of our work.
One of our double-sided swatches
that we'll be knitting up here
has a background in the reversible garter stitch,
unlike the one-sided version
that is in reverse stockinette.
The cable stitch is knit in one-by-one rib,
unlike the smooth stockinette on the one-sided version.
Turning it over,
you'll see that our reversible swatch
has the cable design on both sides of the work,
unlike the one-sided, which, of course,
only shows the cable on the right side of our work.
I will have a link in the description
so you can receive the free written knitting instructions,
along with knitting charts,
so that you can knit these samples up yourself.
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For your knitting supplies,
feel free to use any gauge yarn,
appropriately sized knitting needles,
a cable needle,
along with scissors and a tapestry needle.
Let's take a look at the one-by-one rib cable,
which is reversible,
and this is on the garter stitch background.
All these little sample swatches are knit with 24 stitches,
and on the sides, it's all knit stitch,
and in the middle, it is the one-by-one rib stitch.
Now typically, we would just be knitting all
of those stitches in the one-sided version,
but here, we are doing the one-by-one rib stitch.
Let's knit the cable row,
which is row five, together.
The background on either side is in garter.
That's just knitting all the way down.
And I like adding little stitch markers
so that it helps me know
exactly where the cable stitch begins.
Taking our cable needle,
we're going to slip four stitches onto the cable needle
and then we're holding it back.
That's because this is a rope cable
that is 4/4R, right-slanting.
I'll just take those four stitches onto our cable needle.
I just like using a little double-pointed needle
and I paint it pink so that it won't get too confusing
in the video for you.
And then from our main needle,
we're going to knit the one-by-one rib stitch,
which is knit one,
and purl one,
again, bring the yarn to the back, knit one,
and to the front, and purl one.
Now from the cable needle,
we are going to do the one-by-one rib stitch as well,
which is knitting one,
and purling one,
knit one, purl one.
And here we can see the little cross of the cable stitch
is already beginning.
Slip that little stitch marker over
and finish up by knitting all stitches
to the end of the row.
And here we can see that the cable texture
is shaping up on both sides of our work.
And continue knitting the knit stitch pattern
until your piece is the length you desire.
And let's take a look.
This is the wrong side right now.
And when we turn it over to the right side of our work,
it is completely identical.
Here is our second swatch example,
which is on a seed stitch background.
Our reversible cables are also knit
in the one-by-one rib stitch.
We have our little swatch.
We have the seed stitch on the sides,
one-by-one rib in the middle, and seed on the other side.
Totally identical on both the right and the wrong sides
of our work.
The seed stitch on row five begins with knitting one
and then purling one,
and continue this pattern until you get
to your little stitch marker, taking the cable needle
and slipping four stitches onto our cable needle,
holding it to the back,
and then from our main needle,
we are going to knit the one-by-one rib stitch.
So again, it's knit one, purl one,
knit one, and purl one.
Bring our yarn to the back,
then we knit from our cable needle
the one-by-one rib stitch.
Knit one, purl one.
You guessed it, knit one, purl one.
And here we can see how the reversible cable is shaping up
on both sides of our little swatch
after knitting row five.
And then, just continue knitting until your piece
is the length that you desire.
I really like how the seed stitch background
helps that smooth cable stitch pop.
And our last example is a swatch
with a one-by-one rib stitch background
along with the ribbed cables.
As you can see, this is much less defined.
The cable is really subtle.
One-by-one rib cables,
the background, of course, begins with knit one, purl one.
And we'll do that until we get to the middle section.
Slipping the cable needle,
holding it to the back of the work,
and knitting our cables
in the one-by-one rib stitch as well.
Then knitting from our main needle
and then knitting the stitch from our cable needle.
And continue knitting this pattern
until your piece is the length you desire.
Again, this cable stitch is much more subtle
when it is combined with a one-by-one rib stitch background.
Nice and stretchy, of course.
I hope you are inspired
to knit up reversible cable ribble designs
in your next knitting project.
I have so many great cable patterns for you as well.
Make sure to check those out.
Thank you so much for watching
and I will see you here next time.
Bye.