Cable crosses with slip stitches

Posted 24 Apr 2020 by JC

By request, Stitch-Maps.com now has symbols for a few cable crosses that feature slip stitches:

• 1/1 LSC
• 1/1 LSAC
• 1/2 LSC
• 1/3 LSC
• 1/1 RSC
• 1/1 RSAC
• 1/2 RSC
• 1/3 RSC

In the LSC and RSC crosses, a single slipped stitch crosses over 1, 2, or 3 knit stitches. In the LSAC and RSAC crosses, all the stitches of the cross are slipped. To figure out what an abbreviation means, keep in mind that...

• “LSC” stands for “left slipped cross”
• “RSAC” stands for “right slip all (stitches) cross”
• “1/2” means “one over two”
• etc., as previously outlined in this Ravelry post

Or – better yet – just refer to the key when following a stitch map, or to the convenience buttons when creating a stitch map.

Crosses like these aren’t common, but they can be used for interesting effects:

Enjoy!