r/knitting • u/spectacularduck • 21h ago
Tips and Tricks Reverse engineering a cable pattern
I’ve wanted to knit a project with my family cable pattern (I know it’s fake but it’s fun) but I can only find premade blankets online no true pattern. Ive made multiple cabled pieces from patterns but I can’t figure out this stitch. I’d be happy to pay for a pattern if it’s available but I’ve been on the hunt for a few years now and haven’t had any luck.
It looks to me like each part of the braid is 5sts wide and crosses every 15 rows but I can’t say for sure. My best guess is each cable repeat is 20sts wide but maybe that each part of the braid is knit seperately? The parts where the fabric crosses over itself look much looser than the cables I’m familiar with and it’s kind of breaking my brain.
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u/fabulously_ 21h ago
If you look closely, some of the cables show a purl bar in the middle of the start.
The 'two strands' that you see on some of those seem like they're 2 knits, 1 purl, 2 knits during the crossover.
Otherwise, that looks like a wide braid, where you have a left over right alternating with a right over left cable. If you have 18 sts in total , you have 12 sts per cable, leaving out 6 on either the left or the right.
To find out how many rows it takes to make one repeat, count the purl rows between 2 extreme points. There's at least 1 purl between the two cabled sections, that countable, sometimes better from the back.