Hi, I'm Linda Dean and I'm going to
demonstrate for you today, how to do
the Cable Stitch technique that's featured
in the Hourglass Cable Scarf.
So in order to do this technique,
you must first understand how to do a front
post double crochet. In order to do
a front post double crochet, it's like a standard
double crochet, but the locations different.
Instead of working into the tops of the stitches,
you work around the body or the post
of a stitch. And in this pattern
every double
crochet works into another
front post double crochet so that
all even rows work into
each other. So to begin
this stitch you yarn over and insert your hook
into the indicated stitch.
Now depending if you're right or left-handed, you
insert from the front of the fabric to the back,
from the working side of the row,
around the post or the body of
the stitch to the other side.
And you'll see that this pushes your
stitch to the front.
Then you'll yarn over pull through loop,
you want to pull this through a little longer
little higher then usual so that you don't have
a tight stitch. And then finish your double
crochet as usual, yarn over pull through
two, yarn over and pull through two.
But what makes this
a unique stitch,
it's set of crossed and uncrossed double
crochets. So to do that
you'll want to yarn over and insert
your hook into the third
stitch, complete the front post double
crochet like we'd indicated.
Then you'll complete the fourth
and then you
go back and work into the stitches that
you've skipped. So now we'll work our front
post double crochet around the first
stitch and
then around the second,
and this will cross your cable.
Now when you work in the rest
of the row. You don't want to work in the stitches
directly behind your post stitches. These are
already considered worked.
So then you continue working your row
and the next tip I'd like to
give you is when you're working the uncrossed
double crochets. You'll want to make
sure that you catch all
of the crossed stitches
in the indicated row.
This sometimes can be tricky because
they hide behind one another,
but you want to make sure and pick them all up so
that you're not dropping a stitch in that row.
So I hope that this
demystifies how to do the cable.
And that this will be a technique that
you continue using in the future.
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