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[splodgenoodles]

I have, once again, bitten off far more than I can chew. Like seriously, I can't find the level of instruction in a general knitting book for the thing it appears I need to learn and which isn't super easy. Also means a bit of thinking, not just monkey-see, monkey-do. Damn I hate that

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[quatrefoil]

I have a friend whose motto is 'real women don't practice' which means she just dives into difficult projects and undoes the bits that don't work. It means that she achieves a great deal.

I cable without a cable needle by just pinching the bit I'm cabling with my left hand - providing you're using something reasonably sticky like wool those stitches don't really want to go anywhere - it's more problematic if you're using a slippery yarn in which case I do use a cable needle.

For charts which are anything more than basic, I photocopy as many copies as I need and highlight each copy as I go. I believe you can also get nifty coloured rulers to do the job. And I sometimes find it useful to put direction arrows on if I'm not knitting in the round.

[splodgenoodles]

It's a 4 ply on 2.25 needles, so the loops are small. The instructions I've found seem to work though - just need practice now.

Now the charts: I read from right to left, then back left to right on the even rows, right?

This means the purl/knit symbol is reversed.

Should I also reverse the type of crossover I'm doing on the even rows? (ie - translate the symbol to its opposite)?

[quatrefoil]

You're definitely a 'Real Woman'!

Yes, the chart reading is reversed as you describe unless you're knitting in the round in which case you read each row from right to left. Knit stitches become purls and vice versa - I tend to think of it as a reverse stitch which means it's the same symbol whichever side you're working on.

Generally cable patterns don't require you to do anything on the purl rows - just knit a straight row, which makes life a lot easier, but I can't tell whether that applies to your pattern without seeing it. Is it one that's on Ravelry? There's a kind of logic to cables which will become apparent as you make them - mostly they just keep twisting in the same direction and move because you're moving where you start and end them. I'm quite sure that makes no sense, but I suspect it will when you've done a few.

[quatrefoil]

For clarity: where I said 'knit a straight row' what that means is work a row without cabling - just purl where you're supposed to purl and knit where you're supposed to knit.

[17catherines]

Andrew keeps looking at your icon and giggling. And then singing 'Can we fix it, no, it's fucked!' and giggling again.

I, on the other hand, want to live in your dodecahedron anti-gravity house.

[splodgenoodles]

Of course you do! Everyone wants to live in a dodecahedron anti-gravity house, even if they don't know it yet!

It kicks house-arse.

[17catherines]

Clearly, there is a market for this! You should design one!