Cable and Garter Sweater - Jumper Knitting Pattern For Women in Debbie Bliss Dulcie by Debbie Bliss

Cable and Garter Sweater Knitting Pattern for Women by Debbie Bliss in Dulcie

This Cable and Garter Sweater is a women's pullover jumper designed by Debbie Bliss, worked in her exclusive Debbie Bliss Dulcie chunky-weight yarn. The pattern combines classic cable panels with a garter stitch background to create a textured, cosy sweater with timeless appeal. It is an intermediate-level knitting pattern available as a downloadable PDF, making it accessible to knitters who are comfortable with basic techniques and ready to explore more structured stitch work.

What Is Being Made

The finished project is a women's knitted sweater, or jumper, featuring prominent cable detailing set against a garter stitch ground. The garment is seamed and worked flat in separate pieces that are then joined together, which is a traditional construction method well suited to structured, textured knitwear. The combination of cables and garter stitch gives the sweater a rich, dimensional surface that is both visually striking and pleasantly tactile to wear.

Techniques Used

• Cable knitting: Cables are created by temporarily placing stitches onto a cable needle, knitting past them, and then working the held stitches. This crossing action twists the fabric and produces the characteristic rope-like or braided cable columns.
• C4B (Cable 4 Back): Slip the next 2 stitches onto a cable needle and leave at the back of the work, knit 2 stitches, then knit the 2 stitches from the cable needle. This creates a right-leaning cable twist.
• C4F (Cable 4 Front): Slip the next 2 stitches onto a cable needle and leave at the front of the work, knit 2 stitches, then knit the 2 stitches from the cable needle. This creates a left-leaning cable twist.
• Garter stitch: Worked by knitting every row when working flat, garter stitch forms a ridged, reversible fabric that provides an excellent textural contrast to the smooth cable columns. It also has natural elasticity and lies flat without curling.
• Seamed construction: Individual pieces — such as the front, back, and sleeves — are knitted flat and then sewn together using seaming techniques, giving the finished garment a neat, structured shape.
• Shaping techniques: The pattern uses increases worked by knitting into the front and back of a stitch (kfb), make 1 (m1) increases, and the decrease sk2po (slip 1, knit 2 together, pass slipped stitch over) to shape the garment pieces.

Stitches Used

• Knit (k) — the foundational stitch used throughout both the garter stitch sections and the cable panels
• Purl (p) — used in specific areas of the pattern as directed
• C4B — 4-stitch cable crossing to the back, producing a right-leaning twist
• C4F — 4-stitch cable crossing to the front, producing a left-leaning twist
• sk2po — a double decrease used for shaping
• m1 — a make 1 increase used in shaping sections
• kfb — knit into the front and back of a stitch to increase

Tension and Gauge

The pattern specifies a tension of 15 stitches and 26 rows to 10cm/4in over garter stitch using 7mm (US 10.5) needles. The 12-stitch cable repeat measures 6cm/2¼in wide, and the 8-row cable repeat measures 4cm/1½in in depth. Achieving the correct tension is important for ensuring the finished sweater matches the intended measurements across the available sizes.

Materials Required

• Yarn: Debbie Bliss Dulcie, a chunky-weight yarn, in