'Cove' has been knitted at super speed, not intentionally
but it just happened, a lot to do with it is that it's knitted in Rowan Creative
Linen, yarn which I'm slightly in love with and always seem to knit with it very
quick. 'Cove’ is designed by Grace Melville and it's from Rowan magazine 55
Original 'Cove'
I made quite few changes to the jumper from original
pattern. First being the yarn, I have used Rowan Creative Linen (which I had in
my stash) instead Rowan Softknit Cotton and Summerspun, as suggested in the
pattern.
Creative linen is 50% linen and 50% cotton, it’s wonderfully
raw , has a great drape but it lacks bounce, due to that I decided to make the
jumper a size smaller than the size I would usually make.
The next change were the sleeves; I prefer three quarter
length or cup, and the sleeves in the pattern were just a bit too in
between. I didn't make any great
calculations or difficult adjustments, just cast on with 3.75mm needles number
of stitches that were at the widest point of the sleeve (in my case 61). I
knitted 2 x 2 rib for 13 rows using only single colour. Then I continued in
sequence until sleeve measured 26 cm and finished shaping of armhole as in the
pattern.
The body of the jumper (from armhole shaping to peplum) is
longer as well, again no particular shaping, apart from the one stated in
pattern after which I just knitted straight
until 24 cm or two repeats of stripe sequence.
The pattern suggested knitting the peplum separately and
sewing it on, I joined back and front
pieces together and picked up 182 stitches with circular needles all along the
cast on row, then increased on every other stitch (273 stitches). Too be honest
I should have increased on every stitch, as I would have liked for the peplum
to flare out lot more, but I wouldn't have had enough yarn and as I was using
yarn from stash, to buy more would have defeated the point of downsizing my
mountain of yarn . The peplum is finished off using lace cast off, for a nice
stretchy edge.
I’m extremely happy with how ‘Cove’ came out, even though
the colours are not really my first choice, I always go for greens, reds, pinks
, but it’s nice to have change with a
bit of lilac.
Anna x
