Do you mean as an edge (for example V-neck or armhole) or wandering around on the front of piiece? On an edge you simply do you edge decreases between the body of the piece and the cable. I don't think you can do a horizontal cable except by doing the cable and picking up stitches (for the bottom) or, at the top, doing short rows so you can turn the corner and keeping the stitches to be bound off on the needle and kintting just the cableand the edge og the cable together to the next stitch to be bound off.
In the body of a piece, you k 2 tog on one dside of the cable amd inc 1 on the other side of the cable. Doing this evey row (front and back) will get you about a 30 degree angle, every right side row about a 45 degree angle, and every other right side row a steeper slope. You'd have to practice--maybe knit a pillow top or small bag to experiment with what kind of decreases and increases work the best and how often you have to do them to get the desired angle. I suspect a narrower cable would work better.
Thanks so much. I want to do this in the body of a piece... a sleeve, to be exact. I'd actually tried what you suggested (inc & dec), but I wasn't seeing any progress and ripped it back. I figured that since it was something I thought of doing, it couldn't possibly work. I think my cable actually may have been too wide, and I don't think I worked enough rows, either... I'll try a smaller cable and see how it works.
Have you tried the traveling cable technique? That's when you cable 1 (or so) background stitch with the cable stitches, usually one strand of the "rope" to have it wander around over the background.
It's a common technique for working open cables or cables which wander around over a background. Those Delphine Wilson cabled sweaters use a lot of traveling cables, although not always on a purl background.
See this for instance. The shaping of the sides of the motif, the curving out and then in, is all done by twisting the cable with the background.
Heh... the delphine sweater I'm making is the reason I wanted this info. I'm trying to mess with the upper portion of my sleeves. I'm going to have to learn this to do what I want. Thanks for the link; you are really helpful!
Heh, I suspected. It's really quite a simple technique. It's just like working a regular cable except that you may have an uneven number of stitches being twisted (like bringing 2 forward, purling 1, and the knitting the 2 off the holder) and the stitches are knit or purled as already established, rather than being all knit.
In the body of a piece, you k 2 tog on one dside of the cable amd inc 1 on the other side of the cable. Doing this evey row (front and back) will get you about a 30 degree angle, every right side row about a 45 degree angle, and every other right side row a steeper slope. You'd have to practice--maybe knit a pillow top or small bag to experiment with what kind of decreases and increases work the best and how often you have to do them to get the desired angle. I suspect a narrower cable would work better.
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See this for instance. The shaping of the sides of the motif, the curving out and then in, is all done by twisting the cable with the background.
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