Knitting Blog Chic Knits

Everybody’s wearing them hence it’s all about the Hoodie here on the sidewalk runways of Chicago. Another one has landed on my needles. It’s nippy and snippy in the morning now and there is nothing nicer than having that *accessory* to quick snap up over one’s sleepy head in the drizzle fashizzle of the early day…

This one is black wool and is just a little different.

Instead of the lace pattern along the edges, I’ve added a DOUGHNUT!

Now, you must admit that COFFEE is a requisite morning poke and it all goes better with, yep, a pastry! But this one, thank god, is lo-cal, unlike the dozens that now face me every morning in my new commute. My daily toils now land me in what we call here in Chicago: the Loop. I’ve been re-routed!

Hasta la vista, #66. I’m now on the Blue Line in the AM and what a kick in the pants it is. First of all, I have to walk 6 blocks to the subway (we’ll see how that plays in January) but second, when I get off the train (a speedy 10 minute ride after the gnarly walk) and come up the stairs right under the Thompson Center, there is a Dunkin’ Doughnuts RIGHT IN MY FACE!

People I come from doughnut stock, doughnut crazy love. My Mom made really great doughnuts from scratch we were so besotted. She never visited anywhere empty-handed, and if she didn’t have time to whip something up, the visited got a couple of dozen from the bakery of: doughnuts.

So in the great tradition of knitters before me who take inspiration from the hill and dale, moss and sea, sky and trail, I too am imbued with my landscape and motivated to re-create its glory.

For your pleasure, here is my cable:

Chic Knits Doughnut Cable
Row 1 (RS): K2, TW2R, TW2L, K2
Row 2 (WS): P4, K4, K4
Row 3: TW2R, P4, TW2L
Row 4: P2, K8, P2
Row 5: K2, P8, K2
Row 6: P2, K8, P2
Row 7: C4F, P4, C4B
Row 8: P4, K4, P4
Row 9: K2, C4F, C4B, K2
Row 10: P12
Row 11: K12
Row 12: P12

TW2R: Slip next 2 stitches onto cable needle and hold behind work. Knit the next 2 stitches from left-hand needle, purl the 2 stitches from the cable needle.

TW2L: Slip the next 2 stitches onto cable needle and hold in front of work. Purl the next 2 stitches from left-hand needle, knit the 2 stitches from the cable needle.

C4F: Slip next 2 sts onto cable needle and hold in front of work, K2 from the left needle, K2 from the cable needle.

C4B: Slip next 2 sts onto cable needle and hold in back of work, K2 from the left needle, K2 from the cable needle.

It fits nicely in the same space so no mods needed (remember the edge stitch — not on this chart — if singing along).