I am working through Barbara Walker’s Learn-to-knit afghan and I’m working on the “wrung rib” square. It is a cable pattern, and I am scratching my head over the front cross and back cross description. Can anyone help me make sense of what this means?
I’m not sure how one slips the central stitch from the dpn. And if there are four stitches on the dpn, which is the center? Clearly I am not getting something.
There are 7sts in this cable so the central stitch is number 4 out of the 7. If you hold 4sts on the cable needle and then k3, the next stitch on the cable needle, the stitch on the right is the center stitch. You can mark the center stitch before you work the cable so that it’s easy to pick it out.
Barbara Walker is such a good source for wonderful stitch patterns. Enjoy working through them.
Maybe this one:
Oooh, thank you! I was stuck on thinking that it was only referring to what was on the cable needle, not what makes up the cable on the whole. This makes more sense now!
Isn’t it the stitch on the left?
765 C 321
C321 on dpn, work 567, slip C from dpn to left needle nd work, then work 123 off dpn.
Thanks, Creations. Yes, the stitch on the left of the 4 held sts is the center stitch.
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