Working EPS top-down means I have to do increase rather than decrease rounds for the yoke shaping. I will also finish all the shaping very quickly: by the time I’ve worked the upper half of the yoke depth. It’s really kind of crazy when you think about it, and it can be a little intimidating working an EPS bottom-up the first time or three. Nevertheless, her design works wonderfully. Now I just need to work it in the opposite direction.
Designing: Stitch and Row Counts for Sweater 2
Since I already have a sweater in the yarn, I can use its fit to figure out what changes I should make to improve this second sweater.
When I put the CotLin U-Neck on and examined myself carefully in the mirror, I decided to make the following changes after pinching off bits of the fabric in key places:
Designing: Planning Short Rows for Sweater 2
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).
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.