Yarn: Sirdar Tropicana, cotton effect dk
Wraps Per Inch: 10 wpi
Needles: 3mm aluminium (prym)
Gauge: 32 st and 38 rows to 10cm/4 inches in pattern
Pattern: Double-Texture Cable
Stitch Count Repeat: Multiple of 12 stitches
Book: Charted Knitting Designs – A Third Treasury of Knitting Patterns
Page: 70
Comments: The swatch was 2 repeats wide and 2 high. Lightly blocked, it measured 3in wide by 4.25in high.
Knit by: zeph
April 7, 2009 at 3:10 pm
this is really interesting. I wonder what it would look like with a knit background, instead of a purl background….
April 7, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Thanks :)
I think it depends which bit of the braid you’d prefer to have standing out the most.
If you worked it on a stockinette background, you’d probably lose some of the definition of the stockinette section of the braid . Rather like now where the moss/seed stitch bit is less well defined because it’s against the reverse stockinette background as defined in the chart.