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Right-Slanting Cable

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Finishing the Cable
A cable after knitting a few repeats

The cable after a few repeats.

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Now all you have to do is purl the three remaining stitches and you're done. This is, however, another spot where you can get into trouble.

The stitches on this side of a cable tend to be loose, so you might want to tug on the yarn a little more aggressively at this point than you did when forming the cable.

The first row of a cable pattern doesn't look like much, but as you continue you will begin to see what all the fuss is about.

The cable in the picture was formed by repeating the cable row every fourth row, always on the right side.

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