After my last post on the ambigiuty about how large to make the yoke in my sweater, I posted a similar question in the Top Down Sweaters group on Ravelry. Sidney quickly responded with a quote directly from the book:
She says “Work both the back and front sections until the length of the piece at the arm edge is just one-third of the distance around the armhole, but no more.” Italics hers. Your outer edge is her arm edge, right?
I had read the page at least three times and yet somehow kept missing those key words, “arm edge”. And so I quickly made my yoke the appropriate 6″ along the arm edge, which just happened to take me right to the bottom of my neck opening as well.
I then picked up stitches around the arm edges, and have been working in the round ever since. I love being able to try it on as I go and know that it is going to fit, and fit well! The sholder area seems a little boxy, but I think blocking, along with the weight of the sweater, will take care of that. When I write up the pattern I wil l make the top of the shoulder a tad smoother just in case.
I really love the look of the sholder “seam”. This is a little blurry, but you can see how pretty those increases are.
Now I have to start deciding if I am going to do any short rows at the bust, and what type of waist shaping I want to use. And how long the sleeves should be, and what kind of edging for the neck…. Oh the possibilities!
