Help-Cable cast-on

How-to Questions
1

I’ve begun knitting Mary Jane booties for my new granddaughter and am sort of stumped with the pattern.

The pattern was to K9, beginning with next 2 sts bind off 21 sts, k across remaining 9 st (this includes 1 st already on r needle after the bindoff. Put first set of 9 sts on holder. Bind off all 9 stis; CUT YARN.

Rejoin jarn where you started binding off 21 sts. Cast on 12 stitches using cable cast-on method.

Now, I see where I started binding off the 21 sts, but how do I do a cable cast on in the middle of the project?

Granted, it’s been a while since I’ve knitted anything other than a scarf and I’ve looked at the video, but that doesn’t seem to be helping me with these booties…maybe they’re reminding me too much of the felted slippers?:shrug::woot:

2

I’d probably pull a stitch through where I was supposed to join the yarn and do one stitch with a knitted cast on and then start my cable cast on.

For the cable cast on, you put your needle through the two previous stitches and pull a loop through and put it on the needle.

3

Are you supposed to end up with twelve, or thirteen, stitches on the needle?

To do the cable cast-on, you insert your needle between two stitches, then pull up a loop, placing it on the needle, then repeat.

4

Thanks Ingrid…you’re still among the top on my list for help. So, if I’m understanding you correctly, I insert my needle where I began the initial bind off of 23 stitches and start the cast-on. Thank you too Sara. I’ll probably wait til morning to conquer this one since it’s now bedtime for us. Thanks to both of you.

5

To respond to your question about number of stitches Sara, the pattern says to Rejoin yarn where you started binding off 21 stitches. Cast on 12 stitches using cable cast-on method.

Next row-Knit across 12 new stitches and 9 from holder (21 stitches total).

6

:thumbsup: Then you’re golden with Ingrid’s answer!:teehee:

(She always gets in there before me. We need a race car emoticon. Whoooooooosh!)