Cabled Waves Crochet Stitch Pattern Review And Tips

Hey everyone, it's Deja with Knit and Crochet Ever After, and today I am going to be kind of helping you out with this kind of popular pattern that's out right now. It's called the Cabled Waves pattern. Thank you. Thank you. The book that it comes from is in the description, I'm going to talk more about that in a bit, but this is a very cool pattern that I'm going to give you some ideas, my review on it, some Some concerns I have. All of the above, but we're going to work through parts of it so that you can understand maybe if you're having problems with the pattern, reading it, but definitely if you like stuff like this, like and subscribe. Let's get started. Okay so here is the book that this stitch pattern comes from. You can see it's on the cover. It's very prominent so I think that's why it's gaining so much popularity. This is the new crochet stitch dictionary 440 patterns for texture shells, bobbles, lace cables, chevrons, edgings, granny squares, and more by Nellie Bross and Eveline Hedy Burckhardt. So, this stitch is very unique. I have not seen it in any other stitch pattern booklet, and I have a ton of them, so that's why I want to point out the book. Have it in the description. I don't want to give away the written pattern because this is their stuff when I do patterns, stitch pattern tutorials. They're old stitch patterns. They've been around forever. They're not, you know, new ideas. Even if it is something that I've come up with myself, I'm sure it's probably out there somewhere. But this is very unique, so I want to give credit to them, and I want to help out people that may be struggling with the instructions. And that's one thing that I wanted to show you. So I'm going to show you a page that has kind of stuff that, you know, is out there. There we like this. We're going to look at number 11 here, the staggered half double crochets. Let me adjust my camera a little bit here. So when we're looking at this stitch pattern, and this is just to give you an idea of how this book is laid out because it's kind of unique. I haven't seen instructions quite like this in other stitch patterns. So it could be great for some people, it could be not so great for others. So you really do have to know how to recharge. Charts, that's the first thing. It's mostly in chart. You do see written instructions, but let me get a little bit closer so you can see what it's saying here. So you have the pictures are very nice. They do very good pictures. Some stitch pattern booklets, you cannot tell what the stitch looks like because the pictures aren't great. But for this, you have your chart, your chart key. Then we have work in rows following the chart, work rows one through three once, and then repeat rows two and three for pattern. That's pretty consistent throughout the book. It kind of says that when you're looking at your chart. Then from row two on, half double crochets are worked in the space between half double crochets of the previous row. The last half double crochet of every row is work between the half double crochet and the turning chain. So it gets very verbose. It's very It's very wordy and kind of how they're explaining so they they don't give you you know chain so it gives you the multiple where's my multiple usually it says the multiple here we go we're over here for the multiple so the multiple any stitch count plus two beginning chains so it gives you that multiple normally in kind of a stitch pattern booklet it would say like that multiple and then it would say Turn in third chain from hook HDC across row two chain two HDC between each HDC of row below. Kind of like that, like real quick instructions so that if you're not good at reading charts, you still have the written instructions. This is more like kind of a. A tip a like to kind of help you out as you're working. It's not really quite written instructions is kind of like how I feel. So they are just slightly different. If you are not good with charts, this book is probably not gonna be the greatest for you. But I wanted to go over the cable waves because of How it's written. I think it is kind of confusing and I wanted to give kind of maybe a little bit of a tip in me working their exact instructions. You'll see what I mean, so I love this stitch pattern, but I have a few concerns, so I'm going to talk to you about that right now. Okay, so here is my swatch of the cabled waves stitch pattern that I made up following the instructions exactly. I may have gotten row four a little bit off. Yes. If you've done this pattern and you know what I'm talking about with row four, it's a very confusing instruction. So that's one of the things that I wanted to go over with you so you could understand that instruction and maybe an alternate to doing it if it's really bothering you, if it's really too difficult to do. So we'll talk about that in a second. One, we'll go over that instruction that's kind of confusing at that time. The second instruction that I have a problem with Is the actual, this portion inside, this is foundation half double crochet and it's woven into the piece. So you make your background piece, then you do foundation half double crochet, and then you weave it through. So it's great because you can make like tons of different colors and stuff. But the instruction, it tells me, I'm going to say this part. Exactly how it's written so that you can understand what happened. So bands work a row of foundation half double crochets as Follows you will need ten half double crochets for every pattern repeat of the background pattern plus eleven half double crochets each for the beginning and the End and then it goes on to explain how to make the foundation half double crochets, which I'm going to show you in a bit A little bit. I did three pattern repeats for my swatch. So that would say 30 half double crochets, and then it says 11 for both. The beginning and the end. So I did a total of 52 foundation half double crochets for my swatch. And I ended up with all of this sticking out and all of this sticking out. So I do not believe that that is the correct count. It's probably because like this is almost like 11 on its own. It's like the repeat, It doesn't quite, I don't know. So I am highly suggesting on your first go at making the foundation half double crochet, cause you're going to do your whole background, the whole thing first, or you can, you know, get a couple in and start making your, whatever you want to do. You don't have to like do the whole background first, but once you start making your foundation half Like, stop what you're doing, weave it in, get it to the weaved... amount that you like before you because you're going to sew this end to the end. That's how they say to attach it. And I'm going to give you another idea for that for in a minute. But keep Checking it until you get to the length that you need and then count those and then make it that every time. So rather than following the instructions because I don't think they were quite right on that. I don't know why they wanted to do 11 because it's only like three stitches past the pattern repeat. So I don't like 22 of these for three stitches makes no sense to me and like pulling this out till it's flush like you have that like there's no way so I don't I don't think that was quite either it's written incorrect and I tried to look for errata but I couldn't find any but that's one thing. My other concern with this stitch pattern are these foundation half double crochets. A lot of people were talking about making baby blankets. I am super afraid that the baby is going to, like, yank this out, get their head stuck, you know, big time problems. So I would highly suggest, if you're going to be doing a baby blanket in this, is that you tack down, like, use the purple or whatever and, like, just... Like, tack it down. There's no way to work the stitches into this the way it's created, so you would have to kind of sew it down. So if you're really intent on making a baby blanket and making it safe, I highly recommend that because I don't think this would be safe for a baby otherwise. My third concern with the pattern, I love the front of it. The way that it's written for, like, row four, you get kind of this wave pattern with the Vs coming up front. The backside, wee! Not so much. It's kind of boring. It's like, whatever. It's not great. It's not horrible. But you can definitely tell that there's a wrong and a right side. So those are my concerns. I'm going to go over kind of some tips for making this so that you can understand those instructions a little better. So let's get some other yarn and try out making a little bit of this. Okay, so I've already worked rows one through three. I'm on the fourth row now. Again, I'm not going to give you the written pattern. I want you to go support this author and buy the book if you're really into this stitch pattern or if you saw one on the cover or whatever that you like, because this is a very unique stitch pattern, so I do not want to mess with people. when they're trying to make some money so this is just kind of some different ideas that you can use to adjust it so i'm just going to give little pointers as we go so with me whenever i see stitch patterns i always want to switch to a tall chain so like this one it wants you to make a chain two and it doesn't ever tell you if it counts as a stitch or not they They kind of, it seems like they do. because their stitches worked into them so when they are like that I like to use a tall chain instead of chains to to mimic a stitch so when it says a tall or two chains that would count as a half double I instead pull up a tall loop and I have tons of tutorials and always talk about my tall tall chains I pull it up the height of a half double crochet and then I go and do a half double crochet Into that first stitch, that takes the place of those chain twos, gives it more of body of the stitch and gives you something easier to work into on the next row. So for this pattern, it then tells me to chain two and then we're going to work single crochets, but they do a different kind of single crochet. So this is how it reads. It says one single crochet, inserting the hook in the following way. Grasp the diagonally located loop of the half double crochet underneath the front loop of the half double crochet with the hook from the bottom to the top. Pull the working yarn through and finish working the single crochet. This places the top loop on the half double crochet on the top. Did you get that? So, when I say verbose, it's a little verbose. What I am... Um, understanding from that, so we have our V's here, these are our V's for the loops that we normally work into, and we're also skipping two stitches, so that's part of the chain two, skip two, so we're working into these three middle stitches of kind of this big, gappy area below. It's saying to forego working into the loops. Instead, it says go to the diagonal, which I am guessing is this one here, below the front loop. So this is the front loop out of the two. This is the back loop because it's away from you, this is the front loop because it's in front of you, it's the first one. So it's saying going from bottom to top through that diagonal, so it looks diagonal to me. I'm going bottom to top, and then it just says to do the single crochet from there. And when I do that, so I'm going to do it in the next three too. So you just got to, you got to pay attention. This is the part that's going to be hard. Take your time, especially if you're using yarn that's hard to see. You're going to have to find those little diagonals and make your three single crochets. When you do that, when you turn it around, it pushes your two or three loops to the front. And that gives that wavy, where's my waves, here's my waves. That gives that wavy look for row four so you can see you can see those v's a little bit easier. So that is kind of a tip on that kind of semi-semi-difficult, it took me a second to figure it out when I was reading it, and the chart does not really explain it well. It's kind of like it's an X with like a little hook on it. So if you aren't familiar with charts very well, that might be a little difficult. So that is part of row four. So doing the tall chains I like better. Here I did the chain twos, and you can see it's just kind of like you get the little gaps on the side. When you do a tall chain in a stitch, You don't get the gap, so it's a little bit denser. And then you have that. So one thing that I changed up, I changed up row two, three, I changed up row three a little. So on the pattern itself, let me flip it over here on row three, it's saying to work into the back loops along these chain stitches, and then you're working normally along your regular stitches. So I switched that up a little bit and I did The back loops, but I also did back loop only here, just to give it a little bit more kind of interest. So we're going to see how that ends up looking when we weave it through. It might not make a dang difference, but I was just keeping it consistent for that row. So this was row, I don't know what I said, it's row three. So I worked into the back loop on everything on On row three. Row four, I was saying that I could maybe do something different. I was thinking about just working into the front loop instead of trying to find that diagonal and see how that looks. So this would be my front loop instead. So let's see how that looks if we do that instead. Could be totally not worth it. Could be better to do that diagonal. So it gives you a little bit of a ridge. you'll have just that back loop ridge so depending on how much of a ridge if you want the whole v ridge then work into that diagonal if you want you you don't mind and kind of like like all these little smaller ridges you can just do that front loop so it's a little easier to work into so that's another kind of alternate stitch that we could do um i i think i'll do that for the rest of I'm going to do the rest of this row It's almost done with the whole pattern repeat, and see how that looks compared to this one. So I'm going to go finish that off, and then we'll come back and look at that. Okay, so I finished row five. Row five I worked all in the back loop as well. I'm just trying to make a bunch of ridges. So I don't know how much different it's going to look when it's all woven in with the little pieces. I'm not sure what this is, but... It is just a slight change that you can make if you're not wanting to have to go like okay I'm back looping the chains because it says not to work around the chains. I'm sure you could as well but just to give it a little bit more ridgy looking I went for back loop on everything. So just a little bit of a difference. I'm not sure which one I like better. Kind of like, you know, and I did back loop on row four. I think I like the wavy better. of row four by working around the diagonal rather than just doing the back loop. But if you have really difficult yarn to see or you don't, you know, if you want to make it a little bit faster, back loop I think is the way to go. So let's look at the foundation half double crochet. I'm going to give you a tip on making it that I like to remember how to do it and then we'll take a look at kind of how it looks woven in. Okay, so for a foundation half double crochet, I have like a tip for any foundation crochet stitches so that you can kind of remember how to work them without having to look at your instructions. So we're going to chain. It tells me to chain four. I don't know if I'm down with that but I'm gonna do a chain four. I kind of would more go with a chain three but the pattern instructions say chain four. So you're going to yarn over. So think about it this way that when you're creating a foundation single half double double crochet you're Not only the stitch but you're creating your foundation chain at the same time. So we would yarn over for a half double crochet and it says to work in that fourth stitch. So we're just going to do it. We're going to copy that part and then you're going to pull up a loop because that's what you do when you insert a stitch. Here is where you need to remember what you're doing. So first we're going to create a foundation chain. So we're going to yarn over Pull through, create a foundation chain. Now we have three loops on our hook, like for a half double crochet, because that's what we're going to create next. So we're going to yarn over and we're going to pull through all three stitches. So we just created a foundation chain and a half double crochet. So we're going to keep doing that. So we yarn over. We're going to insert under both loops of that foundation chain we just made. This is the hardest part. This is the part where it's like, what do I do next? You just remember you made a foundation chain. You need to insert your hook under that foundation chain so you can make your next one. So yarn over, pull up a loop. Yarn over, pull through one loop to make your next foundation chain. Now you've got your three loops for your half double, pull through. Again, yarn over, go under those two loops for your last foundation chain you just made. So you can kind of turn it. As you go, you'll really start to see the foundation chain come together. Yarn over, pull through one to make your foundation chain. Yarn over, get some slack. Pull through if you can make a yarn over. All three for your half double. So you just gotta remember to yarn over first. If you just insert in, you're going to be making a single foundation crochet. So if you are having trouble knowing where to enter, turn sideways. Now you can see those Vs starting to form. So that's the best way that I can tell you to remember how to do these steps so that you don't have to follow a book and you know where to put your hook while you're making the stitches. So I'm gonna try to get through these kind of quick. So remember, I'm not going to follow any amount of stitches until I measure it in my background pattern so that I know exactly how many I need for the look that I want. And you can see, like, where's my background? Like, I can kind of, like, start putting it through to get the length, you know? But there's no way for me to like crochet into secure it. You probably maybe could like, uh, I don't know. I don't think it would work. I just, I've been trying to picture something that could work to secure it so that it's not like a choking hazard, but I can't figure it out. So I just highly suggest if you're making it for babies or anybody that's gonna be around a baby that you secure those loops so they are not easily pulled out and become problems. So I'm gonna get off screen a little bit and finish these and then we'll kind of weave it in and I'll explain kind of my other idea besides sewing it to stay. Okay, so I've made a bunch of foundation half double crochets. Now I'm going to kind of weave it in so that I can see how I am looking. So, depending, I think I'm going to stick this one behind, actually I'm going to have to work my way backwards. Of course. So, I am going to, and I might adjust this afterwards, I'm going to start, I'm going to come out this way first, I think. So I'm going to bring it through, and it says to weave it through without twisting is their instruction for this, so it's not like twisting around. We'll see how close I am. So this is that, you know, how I was saying at the very beginning, the very first one you do, kind of leave your hook on and practice weaving this in and out. So some more slack there. Okay, so I think I've got plenty of slack on my yarn. I probably have a little bit too much here so I am going to probably frog this a little bit. Let me get to kind of how I want it to look. I want that wavy kind of pattern. This yarn is a little bit thicker than Using the background yarn. I did that on purpose. I wanted to see how that looks. So if you use two different kind of thicknesses of yarn, thinking the same thickness is probably a better idea. I don't know if that's really great. Kind of makes it look a little strange. So I'm just, you know, experimenting. I'm experimenting for you. So if you have two yarns that are not the same thickness, you might want to pass that up. But this is pretty close. Like this, I'm gonna, I'm gonna I'm going to fasten off here. I think this is close enough for what I'm doing. I might take out like one if I was doing it for real. But what I wanted to point out on my next tip is that if you plan on doing a border, because it's saying use your tails to kind of sew it to your background. So that, if you're using different colors, is probably going to be pretty noticeable. That may not be the best. So instead, what you can do is, if you're putting a border on this, crochet it into the border. So if you're going to do even just a single crochet border, you could do all in the background color, gray all the way around, and sew or a single crochet around Both of these at the same time and then you don't have Because if you're trying to like sew this in, like how are you going to hide that? I don't get how you're going to hide that. So I think it's a lost cause, but you can weave that back into the blue and then just single crochet across. So I think you definitely want to put at least a single crochet border if you're going to be making something to secure those. So same thing over here, kind of come around and single crochet that in. So that's definitely something I think you're going to need to do. As for the back loops, I don't know, I'm not sure. Let me grab my other one. It is, it's got like kind of like a, it's got a different look. I kind of like it. I kind of like the little extra loops sticking out everywhere. The back side, I don't know, I kind of like this back side better using those back loops. Here's the back side. This backside's just kind of boring because you're working into the actual stitches. I think this actually looks kind of better because it gives that ridge and then it actually kind of looks like you're making loops on this side. So rather than, where's my original pinky one here, so when we're working this one, boy this will be very tedious weaving each of those in. Before you sew it all together, or crochet it all together. Okay. Zoop. So you can see it's a little bit more like airy if you use the same color, or same size. So if you want kind of less airy, the fatter yarn will not give you as much, you know, spots in between. If you like it a little bit more airy, you can use that same thickness of yarn. So but you can also see like, if you're washing this. What's gonna happen with these? If you're just like sitting in bed and your toes get caught, you know, you're gonna be doing this and doing this and then trying to make it look nice. So I think it's a super cool pattern. I don't know how functional it's gonna be, so maybe for decorative something that doesn't get messed with too much would be okay. But I actually like the wrong side of this better. The wrong side of this one, I don't know. It doesn't quite... Wait, that's the right side. Wrong side. I was like, the right side doesn't look very good. This is the wrong side. So the right side has those little loops, which I like. So this side almost looks like the back side of this, doesn't it? So like the wrong side looks like the right side, and then the right side here, it's got just more of the ridges, and this one doesn't really have anything on the wrong side. It's just kind of me. So, those are some ideas for you. Take it with a grain of salt. Do what you like. But, definitely, I recommend this book for some really cool patterns, including this one. I think it's still an awesome pattern, I just don't think it's super practical. So, be wary if you're going to make a blanket. But, that is the, um, what are these things called? Cabled waves! Pattern tip tricks, whatever. I'm Deja with Knit and Crochet Ever After, and thank you for watching.