Cable ready

I appreciate the suggestions and opinions about whether to knit cables with or without a cable needle (or an amalgamation of both methods). If there's one thing I've learned about knitting, it is to sample the wisdom of others. I know there's been a fair number of pixels devoted to how the internet has given a boost to knitting. Rightly so. The collective knowledge and wider community make it easier to get advice.

I don't know that my experiment without a cable needles provided a fair assessment of the technique because after I stopped knitting for the night I realized that I was using one US 6 and one US 5. I grabbed the needles thinking I had two of the same size. Umm, no. That would explain why some of the stitches were harder to work on.

So I've not ruled out going cable needle-less and will employ the trick to keep the momentarily slipped stitches safe. I fear that I may be too much of a klutz or not stout enough of heart when it comes to doing it on a "real" project but we'll see.

I am curious to try the suggestion of putting the stitches on the cable needle back on the regular needle when the time to knit them comes. The problem I foresee in this scenario is that those stitches are really tight and don't have much room for any needle, so they may not want to go back.

Still, the fact that I'm not freaked out by cables any longer is a win in its own right.