About:

• Available Sizes: One
• Pattern Format: Written Pattern, No Chart
• Pattern Language: English
• Skill Level: Advanced Beginner
• PDF Format: Printer & Mobile Friendly
• Bonus: Video

Techniques:

• Knit Flat {Back & Forth}
• Knit & Purl Stitches
• Cable Stitches

Materials:

• Yarn Weight: Super Bulky
• Yardage: 200 – 210 yards {183 – 192 meters}
• Suggested Yarn: Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick & Quick
• Needle Size: US 11 {8mm} Knitting Needles
• Extras: Cable Needle
• {Learn About Yarn Substitutes.}

Details:

• Measurements, before seaming: 26″ wide x 10″ height {66cm x 25cm}
• Gauge: 10 STS & 18 rows per 4″ {10cm} square, knit in the pattern below
• Weight: 10oz {283g}

Notes:

• Not reversible.
• The CO edge is the height.
• Knit using the basket cable knit stitch.
• This cowl is knit flat, when you’re finished knitting you’ll sew the CO & BO edges together making it a cowl.

Video:

Click here to watch the “Basket Cable Knit Stitch” video tutorial.

Pattern, Knit Flat {Back & Forth}:

• CO 38 STS
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• Row 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 {WS}: *P*
• Row 2, 4, 8, 10 {RS}: P3, *K* P3
• Row 6 {RS}: P3 *C8B* P3
• Row 12 {RS}: P3, K4 *C8F* K4, P3
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• Repeat rows 1-12, 6 more times, for a total of 7 repeats.
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• To end: repeat rows 1-10 and BO in all purl STS.
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• Weave in the ends.
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• Block, if desired.

Abbreviations:

• * – * – repeat between *
• BO – bind-off in pattern
• C8B – cable8back {Transfer 4 stitches to a cable needle and hold it in the back of your work, knit the next 34 stitches and then knit the 4 stitches off the cable needle}
• C8F – cable8front {Transfer 4 stitches to a cable needle and hold it in the front of your work, knit the next 4 stitches and then knit the 4 stitches off the cable needle}
• CO – cast-on {long-tail cast-on method}
• K – knit stitches {K1 means to knit 1 stitch}
• P – purl stitches {P2 means to purl 2 stitches}
• RS – right side
• STS – stitches
• WS – wrong side

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