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Rachel Coopey's Areto hat is one of the designs in Something New to Learn About Cables, and is the perfect design for newer cablers to practise their skills. Image © Jesse Wild.
Rachel Coopey's Areto hat is one of the designs in Something New to Learn About Cables, and is the perfect design for newer cablers to practise their skills. Our video will get new cablers started with crossing their stitches.
Read moreSocks Yeah! DK is our chosen yarn for all of the projects in Something New To Learn About Cables. It has all the features we want.
Read moreLucy Hague's stunning Pleione blanket uses a three-needle cast off (or grafting) to join the hexagon motifs. Image © Jesse Wild.
The three-needle cast off (or bind off for US readers) is a brilliantly simple but neat technique. My favourite sort! You take two sets of live stitches and you join them. There's no messing around with sewing, and as long as you start with the same number of stitches in each of your sets, the knitted fabric will be perfectly lined up with no bunching or uneven-ness that seems to be a by-product of my late-night lack of sewing skills!
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