Cable Stitch Crochet Instructions Using Drops Paris Cotton

You’ll Need:

75 m/80 yards of Drops Paris Cotton or Lion Brand Kitchen Cotton – alternatively use any worsted weight cotton.

Crochet hook 4 mm.

Yarn needle.

Special Stitches

Cable Stitch: Skip the next stitch. Double crochet (dc) in the next 3 stitches. Working in front of the 3 dc's, yarn over and insert your hook into the skipped stitch.

Notes

When working cable stitch rows, the initial chain-3 will count as a stitch. When working into cable stitch rows, don’t forget to work into this chain-3 when you get to the end of the next row.

When making single crochet (sc) rows, the initial chain stitch does not count as a stitch.

Instructions

Row 1

Ch 35. Sc in the second chain from the hook and in each of the remaining 33 chains. Turn.

Stitch Count: 34 sc's

Row 2

If you are going to use the same colour, ch 3 (this counts as your first dc) or start with a chainless double crochet. If you are going to use a different colour, start with a standing double crochet in the last sc of the previous round.

(Make a cable stitch over the next 4 stitches – see Special Stitches above) 8 times. Dc in the last stitch and turn.

Stitch Count: 2 dc’s and 8 cable stitches

Rows 3 – 13

Repeat Row 2, remembering that the beginning chain-3 of each row counts as a stitch.

The 4 stitches that form each cable stitch should fall on top of the 4 stitches from the previous cable stitch. If your cables don’t line up, you have either started in the same stitch as the chain-3, not skipped a stitch when you should have, or skipped too many stitches.

Stitch Count: 2 dc’s and 8 cable stitches

Row 14

Ch 1 and sc in the same stitch. Sc in the remaining 33 stitches across and turn. Stitch Count: 34 sc’s

Row 15

Ch 1 and sc in the same stitch. Sc in the remaining 33 stitches across. Bind off and work away your tails of yarn.

Stitch Count: 34 sc’s