Comments on: lk2g-080 Lily Chin Interview

By: CAT

CAT — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:16:41 +0000

Thanks everyone for your great comments!

The winner of Lily’s book is: Megan!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:04:51 +0000

Thanks for the interviews I can watch while knitting. My next cable dream project is an allover cabled pullover for my mother to make up for borrowing hers so many times. She has worn my other (ugly) sweater attempts and designs but really deserves a cabled masterpiece. In this upcoming project, I will have to tackle/battle color choice, shaping to flatter hers, and startitis, and challenges to concentration (namely, her grandchildren who continue to live in my house and eat up my food and knitting time).

By: Mioshee

Mioshee — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:50:02 +0000

My faveorite cables have been the ones on the Central Park Hoodie. I cant wait to knit another version of this sweater for fall. I’d better get started!

By: Lizbeth Davern

Lizbeth Davern — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:43:44 +0000

My favorite cable pattern is actually one of Lilly Chin’s. its the reversible cable scarf. It was the first time I tried cables and thought she was so clever to make them reversible.

I really enjoy all the interviews, thank you so much!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:20:11 +0000

Thanks for the interview! I too am still intimidated by cables, but I look forward to learning more about them, and someday (hopefully soon) being able to knit myself a cabled scarf!

By: DeniseCT

DeniseCT — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:59:15 +0000

Loved the show with Lily Chin. I had heard about the technique but had not seen any items knit using it. Enjoyed the detailed, close ups of the items.
Love the out-takes…keep them coming. We all need to learn to laugh at ourselves more often.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:50:04 +0000

One of my favorite cable patterns that I have knit was one that the Yarn Harlot talked about a few years back. Its a Patons pattern called Must have cardigan. What made it so fun or crazy is I decided to knit it in black. I did this becuase I figure some day I will want a black sweater and I thought I better do it while I can still see to do it. I love how it turned out and I wear it all the time

By: wooliegirl

wooliegirl — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:15:57 +0000

I am new to cables and very intimidated by them, but I have attempted and succeeded with a simple cabled purse pattern. I have made several with recycled bulky yarn (from sweaters) and love the way it turns out! Someday I will be bold and branch out to more sophisticated cable patterns…but now, baby steps!

By: Audrey M

Audrey M — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:29:29 +0000

Hi Cat!

First of all thank you and Eric for bringing us such quality in your video podcast! You have interviewed such high profiled designers in a way I probably would not have otherwise experienced. I have challenged a cable stitch block in a sampler afghan (I am still working on)I have fell in love with this stitch. It brings such detail and texture to any project! Hats off to you and Eric and as we say it in Savannah GA…Y’all keep up the good work!

By: Marce

Marce — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:47:25 +0000

Oh Cat, I had such a giggle along with you on this episode. So funny!!!! You and Eric are a treat.

Also - I’m a HUGE Lily Chin fan. She taught reversible cables at my LYS several years ago, and it’s still one of the best classes I have attended.

My favorite cable project so far was the Veste Evereste I made, a pattern by Veronik Avery. It’s in my Ravelry projects at http://www.ravelry.com/projects/BrownBerry/veste-everest.

Great show as always!
Marce

By: Poppie

Poppie — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:17:52 +0000

my favorite cable project i have done is lion brand’s cable ready bag

By: Jean

Jean — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:10:11 +0000

I enjoyed the Lily Chin interview. Thanks, Cat. I have many favorite cable projects but if I had to pick one, it would be the Eye of the Helix Socks by Cynthia Levy. Here’s the link to my project in Ravelry:

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/JeanInMaine/solid-socks-may-june-2010-mystery

By: Laura M.

Laura M. — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:27:50 +0000

I plan on making some kind if cabled sweater. Maybe one with tiny little cables. I still have yet to find the perfect pattern.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:10:33 +0000

My favorite cabled project was my Cardigan for Arwen, but my first cabled project was a reversible cabled scarf. I had no idea at the time that it was in any way more challenging than a normal project with cables. I loved how complicated it looked with the cable needle, and even though most knitters I know are moving away from the cable needle, I still enjoy using it. I hope to knit a cabled bag in the near future.

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:51:49 +0000

My favorite cabled project to date was Wendy D. Johnson’s Highland Fling socks. I love cables! In fact, my first knitting project ever was a little cabled bag from a learn-to-knit kit.

By: Verena B

Verena B — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:50:28 +0000

One of my favourite things I did with cables are Bellas mittens from the movie Twilight. It is also the project that got me knitting again. I loved the mittens when I watched the movie and wanted some of my own. I searched high and low and finally found the originals, but they where about 80$ a pair. Absolutely not in my price range. So I looked for a pattern, bought some yarn and started knitting. I love them and lots of my friends really liked them, too, and I knitted a few more for them since.

By: Pam Scoville

Pam Scoville — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:40:43 +0000

Nice interview with Lily Chin and please enter me in the drawing for her book. It looks like fun - especially that mustard coat!

My favourite cable project, well there are two:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/fireflyhill/shocking
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/fireflyhill/twist-and-shout

Both made years ago, and worn every winter.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:37:43 +0000

I LOVE cables! they are my go to when I’m bored with a commission piece! Right now I’m working on a random cable blanket for my older sister…..she hates knitting cables so I thought it would be appropriate to have them going crazy all over a nice warm blankie!

By: Susanbar

Susanbar — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:10:26 +0000

Thanks for another great show, and please enter me in the drawing. I just finished the cabled “princess mitts” (aka Cabled Fingerless Mitts) originally published in the Knitters Book of Yarn. They use a cable called “four rib braid”. I love how they came out. And I love cables. They look so much more difficult than they really are!

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:51:03 +0000

My favorite cable project I knit when my daughter was in elementary school (she’s in college now). I wanted her to have a traditional Aran style sweater so I bought the Yankee Knitter pattern and some ecru yarn and cast on. I wasn’t able to read my knitting at the time and had to write down every stitch so that I could keep my place in the pattern. When it was completed I had learned so much I felt like a real knitter.

By: Trish (tgknits)

Trish (tgknits) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:53:46 +0000

I guess my favorite would have to be the owlet sweater I made my daughter. It was my first sweater and it was fun to see the cables and neck take shape.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:42:24 +0000

Hi Cat, great episode as usual. My only project with cables has been a scarf. I love the look of it and I really enjoyed making it. There will be more cables on my needles for sure!

By: Jennifer Lefaver

Jennifer Lefaver — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:11:02 +0000

Cat!!!!

By: Jennifer Lefaver

Jennifer Lefaver — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:10:01 +0000

I loved the interview with Lily Chin, she is so lively and cute! I loved the red sweater with the mock icord cables running through it, I would wear it everywhere! My 1st project with cables I would like to knit is the “Central Park Hoodie” that I ordered online from knittingdaily.com. I think I will end up making a few in different colors because it just looks so casual yet elegant and wearable day or night. Keep up the awesome Vlogging! We need you Kat!

By: Nina Saulic

Nina Saulic — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:21:32 +0000

My favorite cable pattern is in the Knitter’s Aran & Cables compilation book. I believe it is by Nancy Bush. Unfortunately, I don’t have it here to check.

Nice interview with Lily. Thanks.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:39:09 +0000

I loved this interview with Lily Chin–what a talented lady she is! My favorite cable project was my first. While in high school, my boyfriend’s mother was making a cabled baby bunting for a new grandchild. I loved it and asked if she would teach me to knit and help me make one for my sister, who was pregnant (I knew how to knit but had never knit a garment before). Forty years later, I still have that beautiful little bunting and bonnet–it was used by four nieces and nephews and both of my children. When I look at it now, I’m amazed I was able to do work that was so complicated–Alan’s mother was a very talented women and a great teacher.

By: Monique Groom

Monique Groom — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:42:18 +0000

I’m really enjoying all your knitting celebrity interviews. Great inspirations for both design and techniques.

My absolute favourite cable pattern is Silver Belle from the Vogue 25th anniversary issue. I have it queued and the Debbie Bliss yarn required in my stash in a yummy dusty plum colour. I plan on finally starting on it this winter the second I see the first flake of snow.

The last time I had made a cable sweater was back in the mid 80’s. I had made matching cable aran sweaters for myself and my hubby. I was very proud of myself but more so when a few weeks later I was wearing mine at a local mall and was stopped by an Irish woman who had asked if I had bought it in her homeland. When I told her I had made it she couldn’t say enough encouraging things. I still have our sweaters stored away.

By: anika ( ravelryname rudegirl72)

anika ( ravelryname rudegirl72) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:22:00 +0000

Okay Cat you can take the sweater, I take the guy First sorry for my bad english.
my best experiance with cables was also my first project knitting since I was a child.
My husband was born in Scheveningen in the Netherlands, so I want to make a real fishermen sweater with a patern from Scheveningen. the sweater was on a 2.5 mm needles and took more than a year to finish. the collar was rubbish, but my husband loves it and still ( after 8 years) wear it with pride.

By: WillyG

WillyG — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:47:36 +0000

Yeah, Cat, the sweater, not the guy.
I think my favorite cable project was designing my own sweater vest. On the back, some of the ribs twist into a knot out of nowhere. It was a first attempt at ‘designing,’ and that a bit off the cuff, but it was still fun to do. In the process, I also learned that you can fix a cable after the fact without ripping everything back! Totally worth it.

http://willyg-strings-n-stuff.blogspot.com/2010/02/sweater-story-hour.html

By: Debbie aka (fiberfriend)

Debbie aka (fiberfriend) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:24:52 +0000

Thanks To all who make lk2g possible!
I would be on my highest creative cloud ever if I owned this book.
My favorite and only cabled project that I’ve knitted is “Eliana’s Smocked Jacket”.
Designed by Debbie Bliss. It is the most gorgeous little girls jacket ever!
But now I’m excited to design my own…Thanks Lily Chin for your new book

By: Lou Harrington

Lou Harrington — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:58:25 +0000

I’ve just discovered your website and watched every show I could into the wee hours of the morning. I love your show.

I’m new to knitting and recently made a set of baby socks that were cabled. I didn’t realize how easy they were. I’m thinking of making the fingerless gloves you had on one of your holiday gift shows, next.

By: Therese Archer

Therese Archer — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:06:33 +0000

My favorite cable project was the EZ Aran Fisherman’s Sweater http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Mimitojwm/an-aran-sweater-january I did for my DH last year. I have also just finished the Hermiones Eyelet and Cable Hat http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Mimitojwm/hermiones-cable–eyelet-hat and a pair of cabled fingerless gloveshttp://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cabled-fingerless-gloves-3. And now I am looking at another cabled hat for my DH for winter. Knit on!

By: Coral H

Coral H — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:32:52 +0000

I would really love to make that beautiful coat from Lily Chin’s book. I am also planning on making Durrow for my husband and myself. I have the Rivulet scarf on the needles for my MIL. There is a WEBS pattern called Soft Cable Throw that I plan to make one day. Oh, yes, and there is the Blackberry Cabled Cardigan… and that doesn’t even mention all of the cabled projects I have made to date. There is much love for cables here.

By: StacieB.

StacieB. — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:58:38 +0000

The next cabled project I’d like to knit is the Dickinson Pullover from IK Fall 2007 (I think), but I’m hesitant to knit cables in bulky. Hoping to find a suitable worsted substitute.

By: Rosa

Rosa — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:35:00 +0000

I’m not terribly experienced with cable knitting, but my favorite project has been Koolhaas- hands down. Easy, small, and very fun to knit. I’m actually looking for an excuse to knit another one.

I’ve really enjoyed this series of interviews. Very informative and inspiring.

By: Linda D.

Linda D. — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:07:53 +0000

Thank you for this show. I don’t often comment, but I always look forward to it coming out. And I can always count on your outtakes to make me giggle. :o)

My favorite cable item that I’ve completed is the Elbac scarf.
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/epic1313/elbac

My current cable project isn’t reversible, but it sure is fun.
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/epic1313/spring-forward

By: Jenny Stafford

Jenny Stafford — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:54:19 +0000

My favorite project involving cables would be the purse I’m making my Mother for christmas. It’s my first cable project, and I’m really liking the results.

By: Linda Gonda

Linda Gonda — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:27:40 +0000

I was a crocheter before I was a knitter, and I have loved and followed Lily Chin’s crochet patterns for many years. Now I am a knitter too. I loved the projects. I have seen way too many “1980″ style fisherman sweaters. Her new styles look up to date and gorgeous.

Thanks for all the podcasts!

By: Lauren Vande Walle

Lauren Vande Walle — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:26:03 +0000

Wonderful interview, thank you for bringing us such a creative person! I am just getting back into knitting. Learned to knit and pearl at about 8 years old. Just enough to do a little blanket for a doll. My friend Marcia Ells is connecting me to good websites now so I am getting more interested in learning more. She should win the book! Thank you.

By: Megan

Megan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:18:30 +0000

A few years ago when I started knitting I picked up a learn to knit kit from Lions Brand. It had yarn, stitch instructions and a pattern for a scarf. I started the scarf but decided I would never wear it.

I searched around on the internet and finally found a scarf pattern I liked. I think it was a fishermans scarf or something. I don’t remember where I found it.

Anyway, it had 2 cables running criss cross all the way down. I loved it. It was my first cabled project and my favorite.

By: Marsha

Marsha — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:19:54 +0000

I love your show - thanks for all the great interviews and such. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with cables because they aren’t reversible - until now! One of my favorite cabled projects was fingerless mitts I made for Christmas presents a couple years ago - I made gobs of them. I look forward to adding Lily’s new book to my library - one way or another!!

By: Camphillpeaches

Camphillpeaches — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:56:29 +0000

I have only attempted 1 cable project. I made a snook for my husband and he loved it. I would love to make a purse with cables.

By: Marni Schroeder

Marni Schroeder — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:16:14 +0000

My favorite cable is a afghan I did with my mother when I was in my early teens. It’s made from the old fashioned yarn ribbons that we wore in our hair and my father created huge needles for my mom to knit with from 1 inch dowels.

By: maureenC

maureenC — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:03:32 +0000

My first cable project was Na Craga by Alice Starmore. It was my first major project after a long hiatus from knitting. I have made many cabled sweaters and afghans since then, and love all things cable. I look forward to checking out Lily Chin’s new book.

By: Tracy Hite

Tracy Hite — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:32:20 +0000

I first learned to knit cables over the summer of 1986 by working my way through Barbara Walker’s Learn-to-Knit Afghan, making a gift for my boyfriend back in college.

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-learn-to-knit-afghan

Good thing I never heard of the Boyfriend Sweater Curse - we’re still together, married 14 years now with three boys, and that’s *still* his favorite blanket! I’d originally gotten the book from my home town library; a couple of years ago I finally tracked the pattern down again, found a used copy online and knitted it again for myself so I could quit borrowing the original from him all the time.

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:09:18 +0000

My favorite cable project was a hat I test-knitted for someone on Ravelry a couple of years ago. I’m currently really interested in reversible knitting, so looking forward to seeing Lily’s book!

By: Victoria

Victoria — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:06:34 +0000

Hi
I love lily chen and i love cables. My most resent cable project(because i have to,HAVE TO,do a cable project as one of my wip’s)is a top sleevless from drops : http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/64-9-top-with-cables-in-paris
this is my project page :
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/shmopi/64-9-top-with-cables-in-paris.

By: Marcia Ells

Marcia Ells — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:17:49 +0000

I’ve tried cables last winter on a pair of gloves, and it went well so now I’ve got 2 projects lined up with cables, number 1, Knitting Daily’s “little lamb sock critter” knit-along. If this goes well, number 2 will be from yarn I’ve ordered in an alpaca and bamboo blend (a lovely red) to make the “Opulent raglan” sweater from interweave press. It’s got some scary looking cables down the front, I can hardly wait to get started and see if I’m in over my head!

By: savannagal

savannagal — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:40:42 +0000

With all the gorgeous cabled garments out there, it’s so hard to choose. I absolutely adore Owls by Kate Davies, on Ravelry. I’m going to make it some day. Thanks for a great show.

By: MaryjoO

MaryjoO — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:33:26 +0000

Fun show, and love Lilly’s “pink”
Cables — My favorite cable project I’ve done is from Julia Mueller, a young German knitwear designer. She designs mostly gloves, and I really enjoyed the different visual effect in her fun Eisblume gloves with a circular cable stitch!
http://www.laris-designs.com/?p=236

By: Scottie Santiago

Scottie Santiago — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:01:12 +0000

I made a cable sweater that I love to this day. I look forward to a reversable cable project. I love the mustard sweater, but need a short version. Happy Knitting Everyone!

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:54:10 +0000

Fun interview! Thanks for all the hard “behind the scenes” work that goes into these…well worth the effort. I adore cables. I’ve done 4 Gretels in the last couple months (for Chrismas) and I just cast on for EZ’s Aran Coat. I’m not a fan of the sheep’s fold, so I changed out all of the cables for a more “Celtic” feel to it. Traditional?….no. Fun?…Heck yeah!!

Take care!
Love, Ang

By: Betsy

Betsy — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:32:03 +0000

Great interview with Lily Chin. I’ve done several different cabled projects, but my favorite and most abitious project by far, was an Irish Cape for my best friend for her Christmas gift 3 years ago. I didn’t have an actual pattern, but I kept going to the Irish store in Coeur d’Alene, ID and taking verrrry close looks at the $400.00 cape in the store. I then tried to copy it as closely as possible from memory, since that was the gift she really wanted that year. No way could I begin to afford $400.00 but I made it for around $100.00. She loved it so it was worth the effort.

By: Zach

Zach — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:25:27 +0000

I absolutely love her accent. I haven’t seen a lot of her stuff, but what I have seen I really like. My last cable project was a pair of hats. They’re two totally different hats, but I made them within the same week. One had the Owl cable pattern around the brim and the other was knit sideways with a braid cable around the bottom. I do love DOING cables, but find that I don’t really like the look of a big complex cable like in an aran sweater, I prefer subtler cables. If I did win the book I’d see if I couldn’t just get more into cables, maybe find a way to use them more, but not have them be so obnoxious. (To me the look of a complex cable pattern an a sweater is overwhelming to the eye.)

By: Margaret Lifgren

Margaret Lifgren — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:36:58 +0000

I’m really enjoying the interviews with all the knitting designers. Thanks. Cute haircut by the way. Ms. Chin’s new book sounds like a must have. I am so glad Yarnmarket is sponsoring you. When I am looking for yarn I always go there first.

By: Jorilyn Miland

Jorilyn Miland — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:18:05 +0000

my favorite cable was a hat that i made in high school to try cables. i gave the hat to my best friend for his birthday. he wore it to shreds. it was so loved.

By: Shannon Fowler

Shannon Fowler — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:04:14 +0000

That was a GREAT interview!!! … I have not done anything with cables, I have done a mock cable on a washcloth. I would like to learn cables & would love it if I won her book! I think it would be fun to do a cabled shawlette or scarf.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:55:09 +0000

Probably my favorite cabling experience was the inside out socks. They are not reversible but they can be worn either way. right side out or inside out. I have made attempts to continue cabling but have not found inspiration. I love Lily Chin and would hope other than the five way cable wrap (Which was a freebie I’ve yet to really get to) I hope I’d find something in this book.

By: Judi

Judi — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:21:28 +0000

Great interview with Lily Chin! My favorite cable project was the last one I did - the Beach House Pullover from IK Summer 2010 - the staghorn cable pattern knits up into a wonderfully warm fabric that has already kept me toasty warm around the campfire a number of nights this summer!

By: Debbi

Debbi — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:02:11 +0000

I’ve loved so many of my cable projects, but one of my favorites has been the Owl Hat which has cables that twist up to look like owls!

By: Myra aka jonah711

Myra aka jonah711 — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:25:22 +0000

I have made several reversible cable scarves. Its a great technique. I really like it better than regular cables. Thanks for the great interview with Lily. She’s quite a character. So much energy!!

By: Kelly W

Kelly W — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:42:29 +0000

My favorite cable project was one I did yrs ago when Hubby and I were stationed in England. It was the first time I had ever knitted cables and it was then I realised that cables aren’t as hard as they look.
It was in a magazine called Mother and Baby and I made it for my then 2 1/2 yr old son. Alas, I’ve long since lost the pattern but it was a cardigan with a zipper and cables running up the the front and a matching hat with two cables. The hat and sweater still look great and they were worn by my three sons, loaned out four nieces and three nephews. Now it sits in the cedar chest waiting for any future great grandchild. But at this point in time, that’s unlikely…lol.
Oh, and the son I orginally knitted it for is now 30…lol.

By: Joey Quinton

Joey Quinton — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:40:15 +0000

I love the look of cables but I have never attempted a cable pattern before. I have my eye on the Cable Scarf by Erika Knight at Ravelry…http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cable-scarf-11

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:32:29 +0000

My favorite cabled pattern that I have knit up has to be the Chunky Cabled Beanie by Stitch Cafe. I really liked how to the cables looked in the chunky yarn. They really popped!

By: Judy Kyrala

Judy Kyrala — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:47:46 +0000

P.S. The smock cabled-sweater is in the Coats and Clark pamphlet “Baby Sets” from 1967. Leggings are also included (no socks that keep getting kicked off anyway).

By: Erica Montalvo

Erica Montalvo — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:20:11 +0000

Loved the show - especially your giggles and eric’s laugh! I haven’t yet attempted cables, other than in my head. They don’t seem so terribly hard to me and I think it’s because I watched you doing cables (?) on one of the episodes. I think my first attempt will be cables on a scarf. I do not want to win the book as I think someone more experienced than myself should win it. I just wanted to let you know that I think you show R-O-C-K-S! Thanks for all the good work you do and share with us

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:37:57 +0000

I have really enjoyed these last few episodes with all the interviews. Lily Chin’s book looks like one I need to add to my ever expanding knitting book collection. As fir my favoutite cable pattern. It’s not my favourite cable but the one I am most proud of because it was a hooded jacket I made for my son when he was a toddler and I hadn’t been knitting very long. It had three different cables in it and my only mistake was the spacing of the buttonholes. Not bad for a beginner.

By: Tara

Tara — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:13:42 +0000

I always love watching your bloopers at the end of the episodes. They always bring a smile to my face. I am currently working on the Central Park Hoodie as my biggest cabling project to date. I also enjoy doing Fetching fingerless gloves because of all the texture the cables bring about and how quickly it knits up.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:58:01 +0000

My favorite cable project I did was my first. I felt so accomplished at tackeling cables. It was an afghan that was done in strips then seemed together. I recently have just tackled a small reversable cable coffee cozy and it was quite fun.

Thank you for all the shows, love watching.

By: toni in florida

toni in florida — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:57:05 +0000

I’ve only used one of the reversible-cable techniques (the one Lily mentioned in the interview, where you cable ribbing) and I’d love to learn some more. The scarf I made that way turned out great, btw. Please enter me in the drawing.

Thanks for another great show!

By: Connie V

Connie V — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:57:59 +0000

Thanks for your fun videos. The first cabling project was much too early in my knitting experience. I had only been knitting for a short while and I tried a complicated woven looking dishcloth. I was doing well until about 2 inches into it… something went horribly wrong. I couldn’t fix it, and hadn’t yet learned how to take out errors and recover, so I just kept going with the problem area in there. Somewhere along the way I decided to abandon that and try some regular cables to finish the other half of the dishcloth. I did much better with those and finished the cloth. I still use it in my kitchen even though it’s weird looking — I call it my “mutant” dishcloth. I’m looking forward to trying a REAL project in the near future, now that I’ve had more experience knitting… not sure what it will be yet.

By: Heather N

Heather N — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:28:13 +0000

I am terrified of cables. I have tried a few times to make them — in socks, and a hat, but have not had any success yet.

By: Michael Raburn

Michael Raburn — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:40:16 +0000

Thanks for the great interview with Lily Chin. Love your show! Great work!

My current cable project is an off white, wool fisherman’s type cardigan. It’s a DROPS pattern that I took some liberties with…never can leave well enough alone. The pattern is designed for back, 2 fronts and sleeves seamed together, but I redesigned it to be knit in one piece to the sleeves and then to add them and continue in a raglan pattern to the neck. Got the bottom to about 6 inches and then decided I wanted pockets so I knitted ribbed welts, garter stitched pocket pieces and continued. Sleeves are on circulars ready to knit in, hopefully in the next few days if I can find time to get back to it. Still undecided about the collar style and after the raglans are started need to sneak in some Elizabeth Zimmerman short rows in the back to raise the neck line a bit. With any luck I might get to wear this thing this winter.

By: Ana Huron

Ana Huron — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:41:56 +0000

I have some beautiful taupe cotton. I just couldn’t think what to make with it until I remembered a simple reversible cable pattern I had seen. I cast on with it and I can’t wait to wear it this winter. A simple cotton scarf is all we need here in Florida, but the stunning ribbed cable makes it special.
I would love to win this book and learn more…..
Ana

By: Diana

Diana — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:47:25 +0000

My grandma showed me how to do cables years ago! But since then I’ve married and traveled around the world with my sailor hubby. I have yet to try a cable pattern but I love the look of cables. I’m looking for a new project. This podcast must be some kind of sign but I think I’ll start small…maybe a scarf.
I love the show. Thanks for posting the podcast!