LACED CABLE AFGHAN
This blanket knits up very speedily. The hand finishing takes a little time but muchless than truly crossing the cables would take. Itis made by tucking most of
the blanket but leaving columns of stockinette stitches. The tuck portions are shorter than the stockinette, allowing us to lace up mock cables which shortens the stockinette columns and makes everything align.
YARN, GAUGE AND MACHINE:
The row count is given for bulky machines with patterning capability. However. any gauge of machine can make the blanket. Choose ayarn that wil knit tuck nicely on the machine. The sample is knitted with 7 skeins of“I Love This Yarn” from Hobby Lobby using stitch size 7 on a bulky machine. Gauge is not very important. Instead, adjust for a good looking fabric that knits easily. Passaps may get a similar design by punching a deco card with the same tuck pattern and a column of stockinette
stitches. The cable spacing will be on 40 stitch centers instead of the 24 on Japanese machines. Passaps use single bed tuck settings and substitute a circular hem for the hung hem. NOTE: use weights throughout. Each panel of the bulky blanket is about 30” wide It can
be made any length. Sample is 2, 48” long panels making the blanket 60” wide and 48” long. Panels knitted with other yarns on other gauges of machine will be narrower and more of them will be needed to make a blanket but the work will proceed in exactly the same manner