Cabled Stag - Cernunnos

by corvus corone corone

I wanted antlers or a cabled deer as a symbol for the Horned God/ Herne/
Cernunnos. Since I couldn’t find any charts availabe, I sat down and created my
own - trial and error-wise. I must have unravelled it about twelve times… But I
am quite pleased with the outcome. If you find mistakes, do let me know,
please!

The leaf-border of the Yggdrasil Afghan has been of enormous help to get the
antlers look right. ( http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/yggdrasil-afghan )
Since I am new to cabling I have no idea whether it’s
considered “proper” cabling. Also, I usually simply purl two together, instead of
p2tog one side and ssp on the other, I do believe one can make it look neater,
but each to their own!

The pattern can also be changed accordingly so that the antlers don’t look quite
so huge towards the end by simply leaving out the last branching out to the
middle and not make a third M1 series of the second antlers branching outwards,
but a simple cabling outwards, so that only one row on cable points towards the
end, the other strand branching outwards.

The pattern is a written pattern, since I simply wrote along what I did. Since I
really prefer charts, I’ll try to get a chart written eventually… Unless someone
else enjoys writing charts so much that they want to do it for me ;o)

Have fun and blessed be )O(

I cast on 40 stitches, 5 on each side to make a neater edge in simple garter
stitch, I knitted ten rows at the beginning and at the end for neat edges again as
well. If you want to insert the motif into something else, 30 stitches are enough.
Obviously in stockinette stitch then :)

written instructions:
cast on 30 stitches
stockinette stitch for a couple of rows (WS k, RS p)
Row 1 (WS): k13 C2B(k1,k1) C2F(k1,k1) k13
R2 (RS): p13 k4 p13
R3 (WS) k13 p4 k13
R4 (RS): p13 k4 p13
R5 (WS) k13 p4 k13
R6 (RS): p13 k4 p13
R7 (WS) k13 p4 k13
R8 (RS): p13 k4 p13
R9 (WS) k13 p4 k13
R10 (RS): p11 C4B(k2p1k1) C4F(k1p1k2) p11
R11 (WS): k11 p2 k1 p2 k1 p2 k11
R12 (RS): p11 k2 p1 k2 p1 k2 p11
R13 (WS): k11 p2 k1 p2 k1 p2 k11
R14 (RS): p11 k2 p1 k2 p1 k2 p11
R15 (WS): k11 p2 k1 p2 k1 p2 k11
R16 (RS): p10 C2B(k1k1) k1 C2B(k1k1) C2F(k1k1) k1 C2F(k1k1) p10
R17 (WS): k10 p10 k10
R18 (RS): p10 C4B(k2k2) k2 C4F(k2k2) p10
R19 (WS): K10 p2 k6 p2 k10
R20 (RS): p10 k2 p6 k2 p10
R21 (WS): k8 C4F(p2k2) k6 C4B(k2p2) k8
R22 (RS): p8 k2 p10 k2 p8
R23 (WS): k8 p2 k10 p2 k8
R24 (RS): p6 p2tog k1 M1 k1 p10 k1 M1 k1 p2tog p6
R25 (WS): k7 p3 k10 p3 k7
R26 (RS): p5 p2tog k1 M1 k2 p10 k2 M1 k1 p2tog p5
R27 (WS): k6 p1 k1 p2 k10 p2 k1 p1 k6
R28 (RS): p4 p2tog k1 M1 p1 k2 p10 k2 p1 M1 k1 p2tog p4
R29 (WS): k5 p1 k2 p2 k10 p2 k2 p1 k5
R30 (RS): p5 k1 p2 k1 M1 k1 p2tog p6 p2tog k1 M1 k1 p2 k1 p5
R31 (WS): k5 p1 k2 p3 k8 p3 k2 p1 k5
R32 (RS): p4 C2B(k1p1) p2 k2 M1 k1 p2tog p4 p2tog k1 M1 k2 p2 C2F(p1k1) p4
R33 (WS): k4 p1 k3 p2 k1 p1 k6 p1 k1 p2 k3 p1 k4
R34 (RS): p8 k2 p1 M1 k1 p2tog p2 p2tog k1 M1 p1 k2 p8
R35 (WS): k8 p2 k2 p1 k4 p1 k2 p2 k8
R36 (RS): p8 k2 p2 C2F(p1k1) p2 C2B(k1p1) p2 k2 p8
R37 (WS): k8 p2 k3 p1 k2 p1 k3 p2 k8
R38 (RS): p6 p2tog k1 M1 k1 p10 k1 M1 k1 p2tog p6
R39 (WS): k7 p3 k10 p3 k7
R40 (RS): p5 p2tog k1 M1 k2 p10 k2 M1 k1 p2tog p5
R41 (WS): k6 p1 k1 p2 k10 p2 k1 p1 k6
R42 (RS): p4 p2tog k1 M1 p1 k2 p10 k2 p1 M1 k1 p2tog p4
R43 (WS): k5 p1 k2 p2 k10 p2 k2 p1 k5
R44 (RS): p8 k1 C2F(p1k1) p8 C2B(k1p1) k1 p8
R45 (WS): k8 p1 k1 C2B(k1p1) k6 C2F(p1k1) k1 p1 k8
R46 (RS): p8 k1 p12 k1 p8
R47 (WS): k8 p1 k12 p1 k8
R48 (RS): p30