How to Knit a Cable Stitch

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Allison from ImagiKnit in San Francisco. I'm going to show you a very basic cable. Cables can be very complicated or very basic depending on the type and they can use a different number of stitches. We are just going to use four stitches total. I have knitted a few rows already so we have something to work with although you don't have to do that it just makes it easier. So take your cable needle and we are going to move two stitches from the left hand needle on to the cable needle. You can either move them to the back of the needle or to the front, we'll just do it to the front this time then knit the next two stitches on the left hand needle and then we will place the two stitches that we put on the cable needle we'll place those back on the left hand needle, remove our cable needle and then we'll knit those stitches now from the left hand needle. Once we have knitted those we have crossed two stitches over the top of the back two. Once you've done a few more rows this becomes much more obvious visually so here is an example of a cabled scarf, right here is where they cross over, the two stitches cross over the front and then the work continues up and then we cross these two over these two and this is what makes the cable. It is a very simple maneuver but looks very nice and complicated."