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Current theme: 🧶 CABLES 🧶

If there's one design feature that is quintessentially knitting, it's got to be cables! Chonky ones, intricate ones, symmetrical ones or weird ones, almost every knitter has tried them and found out the biggest secret of our craft: cables are a lot easier than they look 🤫

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If you're entering a finished project please remember to format your post titles like so to help me easily keep track:

>[CABLES] This is an example post title

Thanks 😄

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Upcoming themes:

| Date | Theme | |---|---| | Mar | Cables | | Apr | TBD | | May | TBD |

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Previous winners:

| Theme | Winner | |---|---| | Knitting fail | Kurobita's accidental moebius | Socks | QTpi's string theory socks | Baby + Toddler | Weirdsquid's toddler cowl | Halloween | TheGiddyStitcher's long-awaited Halloween socks (ugh) | New technique | Kurobita's pastel bubble hat | | Homewares | QTpi's kiddie washcloths | | Summer knits | Catsdoingcatstuff's Criss Cross Top |

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More info:

• The active theme will change every month
• Themes could be anything from "shawls" to "cotton yarn" to "new-to-you techniques" and basically whatever I can think of (suggestions welcome in the comments!)
• You can check current and upcoming themes both here in the sticky thread and also in the sidebar
• Most upvoted project will be declared "winner" and added to the sidebar for the duration of the next round

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FAQ

> Do the projects need to be old?

Nope they just need to be fully finished

> What counts as “fully finished”?

Weave in your ends, slacker!

> Can I still post my normal everyday knitting and questions and memes and stuff?

Yes of course, this is just a fun bonus activity

> What if a project fits multiple themes?

Honestly, use your judgement. I’ll put a list of the next few upcoming themes in the community sidebar so you can decide where it fits best, or if you’ve not posted it in a while feel free to enter it again! Maybe include different photo angles or a new tip you’ve thought of since last time. I think we have a ways to go before the rate of new posts becomes spammy, at which time we’ll rethink.

> Can I enter more than one thing for the same theme?

Absolutely! But please make them separate posts 😊

> Do projects that are only partially knitted still count?

As long as there’s some knitting somewhere in there, I for one want to see it!

(Please excuse the fuzz and pilling, these are OLD)

Ok these are definitely not the most "impressive" cabling project I've done, but they are by far the most special to me so I'm going with them for cables month! A few reasons I love them so:

• I won this yarn in a knitting group on Google+ (RIP), about a month after I'd started knitting in 2013. It was my first ever fancy yarn and I was so incredibly excited!

• Because I was such a new knitter, these gloves were my first ever cables, and also my first time using DPNs. Felt like too many extra hands, I still don't like DPNs to this day!

• And because I like to jump in at the deep end, when one of them went wrong I decided to drop stitches down and figure out how to rebuild the cables as I picked the stitches back up. Worked pretty flawlessly and I was SO proud of myself!

• Last but not least, they always remind me of a friend who sadly passed away a year or so later. She helped me a lot with my first few projects, shoutout to Bernie ❤

Pattern is Roundabout Fingerless Gloves, and here's a bonus pic of the other side where the left one is looking weirdly baggy but I swear they do actually fit irl 😄

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