The other day I started thinking of cool things you could do with knit cables.  I did some searches and I couldn't find what I had in my head.  So I made a swatch.

I started with a normal 3x3 cable twist.  Then I brought one of the cables to a point, which is the bit on the left.  Not quite right.

When I tapered off the other bit of cable, the bit at the top, I paid more attention to which direction the stitches were pointing.  I love the top one.  Super point!

My second experiment, which was to have a stockinette field bordered by a cable edge didn't look like what i thought it would look like, but it has potential.

I need to learn more about increases and decreases before I can get these looking the way I want.  Once I have a better idea about how this whole knitting thing works, I have some amazing cable kung fu to unleash!

This is where I chop the air as if I were doing karate ... or the robot.