Monica Knits

The sketch (not to scale) at left shows the knitting direction, for the garment discussed in the earlier article, Cable Luxe Maxi - Overview. The circular arrow at the top indicates the direction (clockwise) for knitting in the round. The open (not solid) arrows indicate the direction of garment knitting. The sleeves are knitted from the braided yoke downwards, as is the body. The garter stitch neckline is knitted from the braided yoke upwards. Click on the thumbnail at left to view a larger sketch.

The next sketch shows the cable placement and orientation. These directions will yield a garment that looks like the photo, with symmetric mirror image cable twists about the center front and center back. Read more...

The body front and back directions and dimensions are identical, so the directions are given for the front and sleeves only. The purchased pattern as written only shows LC cables. The dress looks better with symmetric cables, as illustrated in the sketch above.

This sketch shows the front garment body plus the sleeves. The left sleeve is on the left side of this sketch and the knitting direction is clockwise and downwards, away from the yoke and neckline. The symbol (3xLC) indicates that there are 3 sequential LC cable combinations--I only sketched one of the 3.