Rogue: Swatches
April 26th, 2005 at 6:52 am (rogue)
A local Rogue-along prompted me to get out some of my possible yarns for this project and do some swatching:
On the left, Rowan’s All Seasons Cotton in a deep forest green. A smooth yarn that is Cotton and Acrylic, it shows the cable off really well. (never mind the bad photo).
On the right, Second Time Cotton, Mostly Cotton, some Acrylic. It’s a smooth yarn with a lot of plies making up the individual strand. I don’t think it will work well for Rogue. It’s a bit splitty to knit with and the variation of the color in each strand would hide the beautiful cabling in Rogue. As you can see I abandoned the swatch pretty early on. No time wasted here!
My last swatch (not pictured) is with Mission Falls 1824 Wool. 100% Superwash wool, this will probably be the easiest yarn to knit the sweater with because of the elasticity of the wool. It’s a smooth yarn and the cable shows up very nicely in it.
So far the All Seasons Cotton is winning the swatch race, mainly because it’s a stash yarn. I have more than enough to make the sweater in any of the sizes (we won’t go into _which_ size I’ll be making. heh). If I used the Mission Falls yarn I’d have to make a trip to the LYS and spend some money, and the likely hood that they would have to order the amount I’d need for the sweater is about 50/50.
I had some other yarns in my stash that I had mentally put in the Rogue bucket: Rowan Wool/Cotton and some Rowan 4 ply. Neither of these was thick enough to even come close to the required gauge for Rogue. I don’t want to have to recalculate that much, and I really feel the cables need to be in the thicker Aran weight yarn to show well.
judy said,
April 26th, 2005 at 1:11 pm
It seems that the All Seasons Cotton is a clear winner. I agree that the pattern would be lost in the 2nd Time cotton.
Wanda said,
April 26th, 2005 at 6:11 pm
The Rowan ASC is definitely the yarn to use and the color seems good for a hoodie-type sweater. Not too light, but not too dark either. I think this would look great in the Rogue.
marta said,
April 28th, 2005 at 2:43 pm
ok…I officially hate you ;-) Swatches? in multiple yarns? I can’t seem to even finish a tiny baby sweater for dd1’s teacher. Then I have um….three Rogue’s for daughter types plus one for myself, finishing Sirdal (sleeves are so…yawn), and that ubiquitious rust pullover. poop on you! lol See you in a couple weeks?
Jenifer said,
April 30th, 2005 at 7:50 pm
Oooh … I’ll be casting on for Rogue this summer, so I’ll keep a tab on your progress here as well! I’m going to use Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran Tweed, color Beach. (Just decided last night!)