Customise Your Cables Collection Ebook - Knitting & Crochet Pattern for Women by Debbie Bliss

Customise Your Cables Collection – Knitting & Crochet Pattern eBook by Debbie Bliss

The Customise Your Cables Collection is a downloadable PDF eBook by renowned designer Debbie Bliss that reimagines cable knitting as a creative canvas rather than a finished technique in itself. This advanced-level collection pushes the boundaries of traditional cablework by layering additional surface decoration and colourwork directly onto cable structures, producing garments that are richly textured, visually striking, and deeply individual. The collection includes sweaters, a tank top, cowls, cardigans, and vests, offering a varied wardrobe of knitwear projects for experienced makers.

What sets this collection apart is its central philosophy: cables are treated as a structural foundation upon which embroidery stitches and intarsia colourwork are applied, adding an entirely new dimension to classic cable designs. The eBook explores how embroidery can be used minimally — to accent specific sections of a cable panel — or extensively, covering much of the garment surface to create bold, complex results.

Garments and Designs in the Collection

Alina Sweater

The Alina Sweater demonstrates a restrained, editorial approach to embroidered cables. Simple embroidery stitches are applied minimally and selectively, used to highlight specific cable sections rather than covering the whole garment. This makes the Alina Sweater an excellent introduction to the collection's core concept — the embroidery draws the eye to the cable's structural form without overwhelming it. The result is a wearable, sophisticated sweater with subtle decorative detail that elevates it well beyond a standard cable knit.

Valeria Sweater

The Valeria Sweater takes the embroidery concept to its fullest expression. Here, embroidery stitches are worked throughout the garment, creating a more complex and visually striking finished piece. The cables serve as the scaffolding for an all-over surface design, making the Valeria Sweater one of the most ambitious projects in the collection. This design is ideal for advanced knitters who want to explore the intersection of knitting structure and textile embellishment at a high level of craft.

Elena Sweater & Tank Top

The Elena Sweater and its companion Elena Tank Top introduce intarsia colourwork as the primary decorative technique layered over the cable foundation. Intarsia is a method of knitting separate blocks of colour using individual yarn supplies for each colour section, avoiding stranding across the back of the work. Combined with cables, this creates a design that is simultaneously colourful and structured — the geometric precision of intarsia complementing the raised, three-dimensional quality of the cable stitches. The Tank Top version offers a sleeveless alternative, making the Elena design versatile across seasons.

Techniques Used

This collection draws on a broad and sophisticated range of knitting and construction techniques, making it well-suited to advanced knitters who are comfortable with complex stitch patterns and garment construction:

• Cable knitting – the foundational technique throughout the collection; cables are created by crossing groups of stitches over one another using a cable needle, producing twisted rope-like or lattice textures that stand out in high relief from the fabric surface
• Embroidery on knitting – simple embroidery stitches are worked on top of the finished or in-progress knitted fabric, using the cable structure as a guide for placement and form
• Intarsia colourwork – separate yarn supplies are used for each colour block, allowing bold colour sections to be integrated into the cable fabric without floats at the back
• Bottom-up construction – garments are worked from the cast-on hem upward toward the shoulders, a traditional approach that allows easy length adjustments
• Worked flat – sections are knitted back and forth in rows, typically on straight or circular needles used as straights
• Worked in the round – seamless circular construction is used for certain elements, eliminating seams on those sections
• Seamed construction – some garments are assembled by seaming knitted panels together, a technique that adds structure and durability to the finished piece
• Seamless construction – other designs or sections are worked without seams for a smooth, uninterrupted fabric
• Stripes