I had the dumbest idea for a circular yoke sweater and now I'm going to knit it.
April 1, 2025
Always amazed by how much plant fiber based fabric changes after a wash. Can you believe this is the same swatch???
Unwashed gauge is 4.7 sts, 6 rows per inch
Washed is 5 sts and 7.5 rows per inch
Tis was on US 7/4.5 mm steel fixed circulars. They feel huge after working exclusively with sock yarn for months! Knowing both should help me know how far to knit as I go before washing, though since I'll be working from a seld drafted intarsia chart it might be less necessary idk. Turns out it is possible to knit intarsia in the round also!
March 23, 2025
You know how circular yoke sweaters make this upside down arch of stitches when worn? Well it kinda looks like a UFO.
Making this thing is going to be so silly. I'm going to knit it in the round until the armholes, then split into front and back and work those flat so I can do an intarsia design of a beam of light and a guy getting abducted. It's going to be done in KnitPicks CotLin (70% cotton/30% linen) in the brightest colors I can find.
Maybe working a circular yoke sweater flat is dumb construction, but it actually should prevent the cotton from skewing when I make it due to the seam. High contrast + rich, cool reds should also make this a piece that gets a lot of wear. And before you think I'm not serious, I already ordered the yarn.
I'm going to be modifying Ann Budd's top down circular yoke sweater for the pattern. The first ever sweater I made was the bottom up version and it was super easy to follow and fits great. Not sure how much ease I want - I'm guessing around 4 in of ease since the linen should be drapey and the plant fibers won't have enough memory to do something form fitting.I still need to make the ckhart for the intarsia and figure out how I want the stranded colorwork in the ufo to sit between the increase sections.