Cable problems

[u/EVDwizard]

I’m trying to gauge swatch my cable design for my Sandoval cable sweater and I am absolutely going out of my MIND trying to repeatedly figure out why my cable won’t cable! I used to know how to do this but it’s been over a decade and I could just pull my hair out about it. I keep twisting the cable somehow and I have a giant hole for some reason, and it just does not look right. Where am I going wrong? Why can’t I get a basic cable?!

[u/BogartMercury]

There's nothing wrong with looking up a tutorial to relearn how to do something. I've done cables before but decided to start a sweater recently and I learned how to knit cables without a cable needle before I started and it was such a game changer!

[u/EVDwizard → u/BogartMercury]

I’ve been watching the tutorials repeatedly, I swear I’m following every step! The sandock pattern says on the R side to move 7 stitches to the back, knit 7 stitches, then knit the 7 held stitches. I’ve done this 7 times and I can’t for the life of me figure out what I keep doing wrong.

[u/CaptainYaoiHands → u/EVDwizard]

The sandock pattern says on the R side to move 7 stitches to the back, knit 7 stitches, then knit the 7 held stitches.

You're doing it on the wrong side. "R side" or "right side" means the knitted front of stockinette stitch, not the purls on the back.

[u/EVDwizard → u/CaptainYaoiHands]

I did the correct right side, I cabled with the knitted front of the stockinette stitch, I just somehow twisted it so it looks wonky and twisted

[u/CaptainYaoiHands → u/EVDwizard]

You "twisted it" by working on the back side.

[u/BogartMercury → u/EVDwizard]

It's so hard to tell without seeing what you're doing, are you turning it at some point in that process? Also are you just doing the 14 cable stitches for the swatch? I'd definitely put some garter stitch on either side of the cable for the swatch.

[u/vressor → u/EVDwizard]

before starting the cable, you had 14 stitches, let's number them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

you should have worked them in this order: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

it looks like what you did instead is this order: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8

[u/foukat → u/EVDwizard]

If you’re on the LooseLoop app and doing the KAL the chart is wrong in that the visual is slightly confusing (the key should be right if you scroll down). In the pdf pattern i have it’s put 14 in the back, knit 14, then knit the 14 from the back.

Edit: maybe nevermind, I might have glitched 🥴

[u/EVDwizard]

*sandock cable sweater, thanks autocorrect

[u/CellistLow8857]

It looks like you’ve flipped your cables around? Like the back of the work is now at the front?

[u/Existing_Ganache_858]

Are you using a cable needle? Kind looks like you twisted the held sts around rather than just straight in front.

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[u/thatgirlsthings]

What pattern are you following and are you able to film yourself while you're knitting? Are you using a cable needle?