Pattern Info

Yarn Weight: Medium/Worsted

Yardage: 50-80yards

Needles: US size 8

Other materials: waste yarn, tapestry needle,crochet hook.

Stitch Guide

BC: Slip 3 sts to a cn, hold to the back, k3, k3 from cn.

FC: slip 3 sts to a cn, hold to the front, p3, p3 from cn.

S1: slip 1

 

Instructions

Step 1

Cast on 24 stitches to US size 8 knitting needles using a provisional crochet cast on.

Step 2

Work the Sand Cable Pattern 10 times.

Step 3

Undo the provisional crochet cast on, and place the stitches on a knitting needle. Hold the knitting needles together with the purl sides facing each other and seam together using the Kitchener stitch.

Step 4

Weave in loose yarn ends.

 

Sand Cable Pattern

r1:s1, k23

r2:s1, p23

r3:*BC, k6. repeat from *

r4:s1, p23

r5:s1, k23

r6:s1, p23

r7:s1, k23

r8:*FC, p6. repeat from *

r9:s1, k23

r10:s1, p23

 

Tutorials for provisional crochet cast on, and the Kitchener stitch:

http://www.knittinghelp.com/video/play/provisional-crochet-cast-on

http://www.knittinghelp.com/video/play/kitchener-stitch