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cabled torus
Back in the day, I wrote a pattern for a plain torus that appears in Making Mathematics with Needlework. This is a variant on that pattern—it has a cable, much like frosting on a doughnut—and it is an updated version of that pattern, because this pattern includes more effective short-row techniques and links to grafting tutorials.
Materials needed:
- In addition to the main yarn, a yard or so of scrap yarn.
- One set of double-pointed needles, or two circulars, or one long circular for use with magic loop.
- A spare needle for cabling.
- Stuffing: Polyester fiberfill works best to avoid lumpiness.
- Two stitch markers, plus two locking stitch markers if you like Japanese short rows.
- A tapestry needle (or equivalent) for grafting and weaving in ends.
Skills needed: knit, purl, 2-stitch cable, short rows, grafting. The pattern contains links to tutorials for short rows and for grafting.
Sizing: A fingering-weight torus is approximately 3.5” in diameter and a worsted-weight torus is approximately 5” in diameter.
Gauge: Because the finished object is stuffed, swatch to obtain a fabric that is not loose, so the stuffing will not easily show between stitches.
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