I was looking through a pattern library1 yesterday for inspiration2 and discovered that what I termed a “braided cable” for my napkin ring design is actually called a “reverse plait cable.” It is also sometimes known as “branch cable.” So, to avoid any confusion and for the sake of accuracy, I’m going to change3 the name of my napkin ring pattern to “Reverse Plait Cable Napkin Ring.”
Introducing: the Newly-Renamed Reverse Plait Cable Napkin Ring. Ta dah!
My inspiration for the cabled napkin ring was a pattern I’d seen that had double intertwining cables (with four ribs crossing over each other) running through it. That pattern4 was named “braid” so that’s what I called mine even though I modified it to be only one intertwining cable (of two ribs that crossed over each other).
Of course when progressing through the pattern library I also saw the true Braid Cable, which has three ribs that cross over one another, just like a real braid. When I saw that, I had a “duh” moment–of course my two-ribbed cable shouldn’t be called braided. And so it shall be corrected!5
Download the Reverse Plait Cable Napkin Ring Pattern here:
- It was Barbara Walker’s first treasury of knitting patterns. [↩]
- I’m in the process of designing some Mother’s Day gifts. I’ll write about them and upload the patterns as soon as they’re finished. [↩]
- Or more accurately, I’m going to “correct” it. 🙂 [↩]
- Which was in Vogue Knitting’s Holiday 2008 issue. [↩]
- And in turn hopefully my knitting karma will be restored. (Is there knitting karma?) I did not have a good designing day yesterday. Could my knitting ignorance and naming faux pas have been to blame? Geez, I hope so. Please, oh please, let me make some progress today on those Mother’s Day designs. [↩]