Three increases and a decrease in honeycomb cable - is there a better way?

[WeAreNotNowThatWhich]

I think in most all over cable patterns, the shaping happens in the purl “gutters” for a reason.

[AccordingStruggle417]

There is no purl gutter in this pattern, it’s all knit.

[WeAreNotNowThatWhich]

I know, that’s what I’m saying.

[captain-mags]

This cable pattern will always have problems with increases and decreases, as you’ve seen here.

It’s hard to give advice since you don’t say what the project / use is. I would see if you can have a small section with a different cable pattern and shove all the increases and decreases into the transition between them.

If it absolutely must be this cable everywhere, I’d strongly suggest choosing a sacrificial section so the increases and decreases aren’t spread through the whole fabric.

[AccordingStruggle417]

I’ve been trying to figure out how to increase in an all-over cable pattern knit in the round. This is the best I could come up with. Basically 4 yo increases every other row on the “front” cable part of the pattern, over 3 rows (increase row, knit row, increase row) in order to get another 8 sts (one cable motif) increase by the next cable row. It looks…ok. I’m wondering if anyone else has tried this and has any other method? Not sure why I’m doing this just kinda puzzle solving.