I Heart Cables

This blanket is a great example of how cables and lace can combine to create a beautiful texture. The blanket was knitted using a combination of cables together with yarn over (YO) stitches and decreses to create a simple classic lines and great texture.

This hot water bottle cover features rows of cables that run the length of the cover. These cable serve a dual purpose. They add a beautiful texture and visual detail as well as ensuring that the fabric is tight and dense to snuggly fit over a hot water bottle.

This cute hat, knit for a toddler uses nesting cables to add visual details to the hat. The cables are also used to conceal decreses as the number of stitches is reduced towards the crown of the hat. THe cables also serve to fit the hat snuggly to the child's head.

This beautiful shawl features a highly textured border. The border feauters seven different types of cables, including a horseshoe cable on the inner border and meandering cables to create the wave that travels the length of the border.

This necklace doesn't actually feature cables, however the construcition is designed to replcate a cable. The necklace is created by knitting a length of icord and then using crochet to chain a number of stitches. It is this chain that resembles a traditional cable.

Knitted cables are created by simply crossing one group of stitches across another.

This surprisingly easy technique can be used to create the most beautiful and intricate rivers of stitches. Cables can add the most beautiful textures to knitted items and are often associated with a style of knitting known Aran knitting.

Cables help to create a dense and warm fabric as stitches are crossed across each other. They can be used very effectively to create heavily textured patterns by combining several different cables or a simple cable can be included to add some visual interest to an item.