In Newsletter #1 in EZ’s The Opinionated Knitter, she has instructions to work the short rows starting with the entire back half of the neckline, 48 of 96 total stitches. At the end of each row, she works 2 more stitches past the last turning point, working a total of 6 short rows before finishing the neck ribbing in the round. Since that sweater is done in fingering, there’s not much back neck depth added, probably only three-quarters of an inch or so, since the designed stitch gauge is 6 spi (there’s no row gauge given).
Category Archives: Sweater Adventures
Sweater Adventure #2: CotLin Seamless, Top-Down Circular Yoke
I’ve made several seamless top-down sweaters, and I’ve made a number of seamless bottom-up circular yoke sweaters. But I don’t remember ever making a seamless circular yoke sweater from the top-down.
Evaluation: CotLin U-Neck
I can’t truly evaluate the CotLin U-Neck sweater until it’s been washed because I already know the gauges will change, and hopefully the FO, like the swatch, will stabilize after two laundry cycles.
Technique: Neaten an ITR Bind-Off
I must have known about this little trick, because I used it on sweaters I made before I found it in Cat Bordhi’s New Pathways for Sock Knitters: Book One. It’s an incredibly easy way to handle the knitsch that happens when we bind off any project worked in the round.
Working: The Neck Ribbing
Because I know from my swatching that 7 rounds are enough to counteract rolling in this yarn, I’ll do that many rounds on the neck, compared to the 10 I did on the sleeves and bottom edge.
Knit-Up Stitch Counts
Starting at the back/right sleeve raglan join, I will knit up one for one on the back, sleeves, and bottom center of the front neck. Those are the easy places.
Working: Finishing the Body
Once I had the body’s phony seams done and completed the final stockinette round, I switched to 2×2 ribbing to match the sleeve cuffs as well as the neck ribbing I’ll add. Since I had 266 body stitches, I needed to either increase or decrease 2 sts to have a multiple of 4 for my ribbing. On the sleeves, which were snug, I increased 2, but on the body, which had a bit of ease, I decided to decrease 2.