Gone Rogue

A few months ago, my knitting protege at work and I decided to knit the Rogue sweater together at work. Hers is going to be periwinkle, mine oxblood with turquoise hems.

After a couple "incidents" with the sleeve cabling, and after throwing the whole thing unceremoniously under the couch for a month or so, I'm back at it, and am now halfway up the body (pictures to follow).

I feel infinitely clever for figuring out a better way to knit the kangaroo pocket: rather than knitting the pocket flap and returning to pick up stitches to continue knitting the body and then later grafting the pocket top, I ran two strands of yarn while knitting the pocket stitches - one was the body strand and the other was a new strand for working the pocket. At the end of that run of stitches, I split the paired stitches into front and backs (not really worrying about which individual leg belonged to which ball), putting the set of stitches at the back of the work on the main body cable needle and knit the front set of stitches into the pocket on straights. At the end of the pocket, I put the live stitches on waste yarn and grafted them when I reached the appropriate row in the body work later on. As I hate picking up stitches, I feel just about too clever for words.

I'm almost done with the body cabling charts, have the sleeves already off the needles (having worked them first at the same time on a cable needle as two incredibly painful swatches), and am looking forward with some apprehension at the worked flat portions of the body and hood. I would love to have this done and seamed by the end of the month, and at the rate I've been working at it, I just may!

I've been knitting to Grey's Anatomy on DVD, and fear that I may run out of episodes before the sweater is done, and don't want to contemplate what that will do for my drive.

Oh - the sweater is in Clekheaton Wool superwash in oxblood. I worked the hem facings in a bright turquoise, just for fun. I want to figure out how to work a facing into the hood...