To work some particularly awesome cable designs (like this one for instance), you need to learn a technique known as closed loop cabling.
This isn't something I've heard of til recently (I haven't done many complex cable patterns), but it makes sense if you think about it: the basic cable resembles a rope or braid, which can go up or to the side, but not merge with another strand. Closed loop cabling allows your strands to meet.
![Closed Loop Cabling cable knitting techniques tutorial](http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4851/29348074324e87d719ee.jpg)
In order to do this from the bottom (making a cable that starts from a U shape), you have to increase multiple stitches at the point where the strands meet. Likewise to do so at the top, you need to decrease.
There are a number of techniques to do these increases or decreases, which involve a number of stitches. Here are a few tutorials I've found:
Ariadne Knits: Mirrored double increase
Ariadne Knits: Slipped decrease
Another tutorial on the Alice Starmore increase
Our Curious Home: Christmas tree increases
Our Curious Home: Cable Capping decrease
~Joyuna
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