Cables While Knitting in the Round

If you are knitting a cabled pattern in the round, it’s sometimes difficult to see/know when you are on a cable round as opposed to when you are knitting back and forth. There are a few tricks to being able to count the rounds which I’ve illustrated below.



This is my preferred method and what I think is the easy method.

What Round Was I Knitting?

To keep track of rows and/or increases and decreases when knitting in the round, knit the same number of stitches past the beginning of round marker as the row you are on. So if you are on row 5, knit 5 stitches of that round so when you pick up your work again, you can count the stitches beyond the marker and know what row you should be knitting.