Learn To Knit Cables – Easy Beginner Project

Knitting cables doesn’t have to be so hard. These last few days I have been at home with a cold, and my oldest daughter took the opportunity to ask me knit something for her.

She wanted a headband, and when we looked around on different kinds of knitted headbands online, she found this headband on Drops design:

https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=8159&cid=19

She wanted something similar but a little thicker so she won’t get cold, she said. Here is the end result:

Easy Cable Knit Project For Beginners

This was a really easy knitting project that I think beginner knitters would really enjoy. Knitting cables looks so advanced, but it doesn’t have to be so hard.

If you are looking for an easy cable knit project, I would say this is a really good one to start with.

The knitting pattern for this headband is found in the link to Drops design you can find at the beginning of the blog post.

I almost followed that knitting pattern but chose to knit in the round instead to make the headband a little thicker, just as my daughter wanted. 😉 I have to say that this is a new season of knitting, I am not used to that many options when I knit for my children.

My oldest daughter is now 9 years old, and I had to start from the beginning 3 times over to meet her expectations. But she was really happy with the end result, so that is good!

Learn To Knit Cables

If you haven’t knitted any cables before, I would suggest that you follow this link to learn the basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Gm9nTP1z4

In that video, she explains very well how cables are knitted without making it seem complicated.

When you get the hang of it, you will have a lot of opportunities to practice if you choose to knit this headband, because even if you knit it for a child, there is a lot of repetitions involved.

You can definitely do it! I highly recommend that you try!

The first cable knit project I finished was a beanie. When I was in my teenage years and I remember I wore that beanie so much!! I had friends asking if I could knit one for them as well. I think that was one of the first knitting projects that I was actually proud of finishing.

There is something with homemade knit that sometimes makes it look so homemade, and when I was young, I thought I wasn’t that cool to wear something that looked homemade. But knitting projects with cables tend to look quite neat and cool.

So. That is my pep talk to you if you needed it in order to try to learn how to knit cables.

We hope you will have a really nice time knitting. Hope to see you again soon.