I have searched and can’t find an explanation for this cable symbol. Why are there 2 lines in boxes which mean 1 stitch?
This is a left cable cross of 4sts over 4sts (8sts involved in the cable). You would work it by placing 4sts on a cable needle and holding to the front, knit the next 4sts on the left needle then knit the 4sts on the cable needle.
The boxes in the grid are often not individual sts but operations (increases, decreases or cable crosses).
Can you give us the name of your pattern / designer?
This is a less-common way of charting cables. I usually see an 8-stitch cable like this:
Clever use of cables. Thanks for the photo.
Can you explain how to do them ?
For the one that you posted, the left leaning 8stitch cable:
I’m not sure that the corresponding right leaning 8stitch cable is used but if it is it’s worked by putting 4sts on a cable needle and holding to the back. Then knit the next 4sts on the left needle and finally the 4sts on the cable needle.
Here’s a video for an 8stitch cable that is right leaning with an explantion of the left leaning cable at the end.
You’re pattern may well have an explanation for the cables at the beginning or end of the pattern. Since the cables are charted it may help to use a highlighter to color in the 8 blocks in the chart that are the cable sts.
Thank you, that’s what I thought but I’m confused by the 2 lines in each of the stitch boxes. Most charts would just have 1 line.
This pattern has no written explanation for the cables.
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The 4 small lines each side represent the 4sts that are crossing over. Where the small lines sit in the chart isn’t to be taken literally as referring to stitches in those boxes.
Don’t think of the chart squares as sts but rather as operations. The symbol spans 8 boxes for the cable and it’s 4sts crossing over 4sts. That will give you the look that the designer wants. As ColoCro posted, a more common representation is the thick lines indicating a cable cross.
Ok, thanks so much.