No Cable Needle Required: How to Knit the 2/1 LPC and 2/1 RPC Cable Stitches for Lefties
Learn how to work left purl cross and right purl cable stitches without a cable needle (for left handed mirror knitters.) There's no holding live stitches in your fingers or letting the float freely in the air! In this technique, we rearrange our stitches on the needle before working them. How to work the 2/1 Left Purl Cross (aka 2/1 Left Purl Cable, 2/1 LPC, leans right for mirror knitters): To work a left leaning cable without a cable needle we'll slip all stitches through the back loops. Slip 3 stitches together through the back loops as if to purl through the back loop. Transfer 2 stitches back to the holding needle through the back loop, untwisting them. Transfer one stitch back to the holding needle through the back loop untwisting it. Purl 1, then one then knit 2. How to work the 2/1 Right Purl Cross (aka 2/1 Right Purl Cable, 2/1 RPC, leans left for mirror knitters): To work a right leaning cable without a cable needle we'll slip stitches through the front loop. Slip 3 stitches together through the front loop knitwise as if to k3tog. Slip 1 stitch back to the holding needle through the front loop. Slip 2 stitches back to the holding needle through the front loop. K2, p1. Subscribe for more knitting tutorials @knitrino
