{"categories":["Knitting","Knitting Stitch Patterns","Reversible Stitch Patterns"],"locales":[],"node_image":"","formatted_content":"<p>Baby cable rib (aka baby cable ribbing) is a very neat trick.  It lets you make thin cables without needing to use a cable needle or slip stitches about the place.  Plus with most yarns it's a <a href=\"?Category_Reversible_Stitch_Patterns\">reversible stitch pattern</a> too - one side looks cabled and the other like rib.</p>\n<p>Here's a pattern for a basic sampler.  The even-numbered rows are the side that will show the cables.</p>\n<p><b>Special abbreviation:</b> BCR (baby cable rib) = K2 tog, but leave them on the left-hand needle. Insert the right-hand needle between the 2 stitches just knitted together, and knit the 1st one again; then slip\nboth stitches from the needle together.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Cast on</b> a multiple of 4 stitches plus 2.</li>\n<li><b>Row 1:</b> P2, (K2, P2) to end.</li>\n<li><b>Row 2:</b> K2, (P2, K2) to end.</li>\n<li><b>Row 3:</b> As row 1.</li>\n<li><b>Row 4:</b> K2, P2, (BCR, P2) to last 2 st, K2.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Repeat these four rows until long enough, then do rows 1 and 2 again, then cast off.\nThis is a sampler pattern based on <a href=\"?Kake%27s_Purple_Wow_Scarf_For_Nick\">Kake's Purple Wow Scarf for Nick</a>; the cables don't go all the way to the edge.  The even-numbered rows are the right side.</p>\n<h4>Variations on the basic pattern</h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Put the cable crossings less frequently - for example, work rows as 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4</li>\n<li>Put the cables further apart - for example, replace row 1 with P4, (K2, P4) to end, row 2 with K4, (P2, K4) to end, and row 4 with P4, (BCR, P4) to end</li>\n</ul>\n<hr />\n\n<p><b>See Also:</b> <a href=\"?Knitting_Tips\">Knitting Tips</a></p>\n","opening_hours_text":"","city":"London","node_image_url":"","version":"7","content":"Baby cable rib (aka baby cable ribbing) is a very neat trick.  It lets you make thin cables without needing to use a cable needle or slip stitches about the place.  Plus with most yarns it's a [[Category Reversible Stitch Patterns|reversible stitch pattern]] too - one side looks cabled and the other like rib.\n\nHere's a pattern for a basic sampler.  The even-numbered rows are the side that will show the cables.\n\n<b>Special abbreviation:</b> BCR (baby cable rib) = K2 tog, but leave them on the left-hand needle. Insert the right-hand needle between the 2 stitches just knitted together, and knit the 1st one again; then slip\nboth stitches from the needle together.\n\n* <b>Cast on</b> a multiple of 4 stitches plus 2.\n* <b>Row 1:</b> P2, (K2, P2) to end.\n* <b>Row 2:</b> K2, (P2, K2) to end.\n* <b>Row 3:</b> As row 1.\n* <b>Row 4:</b> K2, P2, (BCR, P2) to last 2 st, K2.\n\nRepeat these four rows until long enough, then do rows 1 and 2 again, then cast off.\nThis is a sampler pattern based on [[Kake's Purple Wow Scarf for Nick]]; the cables don't go all the way to the edge.  The even-numbered rows are the right side.\n\n==== Variations on the basic pattern ====\n\n* Put the cable crossings less frequently - for example, work rows as 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4\n* Put the cables further apart - for example, replace row 1 with P4, (K2, P4) to end, row 2 with K4, (P2, K4) to end, and row 4 with P4, (BCR, P4) to end\n\n----\n<b>See Also:</b> [[Knitting Tips]]\n","version_indpt_url":"http://london-crafts.org/Baby_Cable_Rib","summary":"","timestamp":"2007-12-01T14:51:27","url":"http://london-crafts.org/id=Baby_Cable_Rib;version=7","address":"","os_y":"","website":"","username":"Kake","fax":"","node_image_licence":"","phone":"","os_x":"","postcode":"","longitude":"","latitude":"","country":"United Kingdom"}