Knitting from the Top

I checked out this book from our library again, and I think I’m going to have to buy it.  I just love it, because Barbara Walker seems to love knitting in the round just as much as I do.

I was poking around the set-in sleeve chapter, and discovered that you can do a simultaneous set-in sleeve.  In the round!  Yoke and sleeves all at once, but it’s not a raglan!

So I am trying to design a t-shirt using this method, but I already am a tad confused.  I think this is going to be a multiple frogging project.  The yoke starts with short rows to shape the shoulders, and you are supposed to pick up stitches and work in the round when the piece measures 1/3 of your total needed length.  But the piece is at least two inches thicker in the middle than at the edges, where I would be picking up the stitches.  So where to I measure?  The middle or the edges?

A few people on Ravelry seem to have done this type of sweater, so I’m going to ask them what they did.  I hope I can make this work!

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