Cabling is and isn't complicated at the same time, if that makes any sense. The individual stitches are mostly stockinette or reverse stockinette, which is pretty easy once you've been knitting a while, and I...started when I was eight I think. My first few projects when I was learning? Sucked.
The tricky part is that with cables you add in another needle and hold stitches out of the way when you keep knitting other things, then add them back in. If you hold the third needle in front of your work, the stitches on it float on top of the rest of the knitting and seem to travel diagonally. If you hold the third needle behind, those stitches end up behind other stitches, and those other stitches are the ones that seem to float above the main fabric. So it gets a bit tricky juggling the extra needle, but once you've got the rhythm going the stitches aren't too hard. And though the cabling of the trees looks complex, it followed a pretty regular pattern that I could predict, so I spent more time reading my knitting than reading the pattern itself.
The tricky part is that with cables you add in another needle and hold stitches out of the way when you keep knitting other things, then add them back in. If you hold the third needle in front of your work, the stitches on it float on top of the rest of the knitting and seem to travel diagonally. If you hold the third needle behind, those stitches end up behind other stitches, and those other stitches are the ones that seem to float above the main fabric. So it gets a bit tricky juggling the extra needle, but once you've got the rhythm going the stitches aren't too hard. And though the cabling of the trees looks complex, it followed a pretty regular pattern that I could predict, so I spent more time reading my knitting than reading the pattern itself.
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