Cable and Garter Sweater - 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