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Do you need a cable needle to knit cables?
Cabling without a cable needle involves rearranging your stitches by allowing them to slip off the needle momentarily before you catch them again. This might sound a little scary, but you’ll soon get the hang of it. When you cable without a cable needle, it really speeds up your knitting.
Does cable knitting use more yarn?
You’ll need more yarn and more stitches for a cable sweater than for one of the same dimensions in a knit/purl pattern. … The swatch should include at least two repeats of the cable pattern horizontally and vertically. If you’re working several different cables, you have to check your gauge over each one.