Rogue: A Start!
June 12th, 2005 at 11:13 am (rogue)
Not much to look at yet, but here it is:
I have cast on an done about 9 rows on my Rogue sweater (pattern available here). I’m using Rowan All Seasons Cotton in a beautiful dark green. My gauge from my swatch was 4.65 st/inch. The pattern calls for 4.5 st/inch - so I’m pretty darn close. Given that I tend to loosen up a bit when knitting large sweaters, I’m hoping it will come out just right.
The size I wanted to make it somewhere between the Large and Xtra large size. I’m also modifying the pattern to be a cardigan. In order to do this, I needed to add a few stitches. Normally Rogue is knit in the round, but I’m using cotton and I don’t trust myself to get a very neat edge by doing a steek on this thing. So I’m knitting it back and forth. When you do this you end up knitting back and forth as follows:
RIGHT FRONT <cable> BACK <cable> LEFT FRONT
The pattern uses an odd number of stitches for the front and back portions. To split the front into left and right, you need to add one stitch. To keep the back the same size, you should add a stitch there as well.
I wanted to increase the size of the sweater by about 1.5 inches:
RIGHT FRONT: +1 to make total # of front stitches an even number
+2 to increase the size a bit
<cable>
BACK +4 to increase size
+1 to make total # of bac stitches even
<cable>
LEFT FRONT: +2 to increase size a bit
So I’m adding a total of 10 stitches to the pattern. Notice the number of stitches added to the back and front match up to be 5 for each.
Once I get a few inches into the body I’ll see how it’s fitting around me and if it’s too big or too small.
Wanda said,
June 22nd, 2005 at 12:21 pm
Sometime a little later in the summer I’ll be casting on, perhaps August. It’s too warm now for me to knit it. Mine will be in BlackWater Abbey in wool.