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First you want to make a swatch, now I can get away with as little sts and rows for this, but for those that are new to machine knitting, I would suggest to do up on the bulky of 30 sts and 40 to 50 rows, mid gauge 40 to 50 sts and 50 to 60 rows, and the standard 60 sts and 70 rows. Now if you know how to swatch up for the Knit Leader, Knit Radar or Contour (or any device that takes drawn out patterns), that may be better, but just knitting so many stitches and rows, take off the machine and let it rest, overnight preferable, but even in a few hours, then take a solid ruler and count how many stitches and rows per inch.
Then you would measure where you want the shrug to end, if at the wrist, then measure there but add a few inches of ease, the rib will help pull that in.
So looking at the picture, the red line would be your cast on stitches, then the fuchsia would be your length of the sleeve (measure from the edge of the sleeve to where the shoulder meets the arm), but you will also need to increase to get it to where the sleeve will meet the body part. You will need to know the measurement around the upper part of your arm, then the math is take the larger amount of stitches and subtract the cast on stitches and then divide by the length to find out how many stitches will need to be decreased. Next take the rows needed to work the sleeve and then divide by the sts that are needed to be decreased. If need, work up a couple more rows at the end sot hat you don't have a decrease right on the last row.
The green line would be to cast on stitches to make the body part longer is all.
Next you will need your measurement of half your back width (the blue line), then the rest is done in reverse.
If you have a generator (and I will be working on one, but there are a few online that you can use), or using KnitWare or Sweater Wizard, you can take the schematics and then make your own pattern. The sleeves will be the same, but the body you may want to add sts to that to make it a little longer, as also that is what I used in my Parts of a Sweater disk.
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