My biggest gripe about yoke sweaters is the extra fabric they leave bagging in the back. Most patterns estimate sizing by your bust measurement, which in my case, means I'm "front heavy." Yokes don't accommodate very well for the resulting imbalance. What I've started doing is working waist and hip shaping on just the back side. Other possible solutions would be shifting the arm holes further back on the yoke. I'd also like to experiment with using my upper bust measurement to determine size and then maybe working bust increases to accommodate.

@cometoogrebattleify

5 ай бұрын

I know lots of people do shift the armhole stitches so that there's more on the front than the back! Definitely a bonus, particularly if you are busty! I also hate the way the back sags, so I usually do a series of decreases after the sleeve separation under the arm to 'tuck'it in a bit. I am smaller in the bust so I often find too much fabric between the bust and top of my arm. I also find when increases occur on the lower half of the yoke you often end up with puckering on the sleeves because of the large amount of increases. I would definitely (in my case) avoid increasing on the sleeves in the second half if I can.

This series is golden. You are an excellent teacher with seemingly endless knowledge. I enjoy your book recommendations also.

Wow this woman is a goddess 👏👏👏 you explain it in such a nice and comprehensive way!! Thank you!

Thank you for taking what could be a confusing topic and making it easy to understand!

This is fantastic guidance. I won't have to be dependent on someone else's designs any more. Thank you!

Thanks for yet another stunning video, Roxy. I so enjoy the details in your explanations, the range of your considerations as well as your critique of their strengths and weaknesses. Thank you!

I love your miniature models. They’re perfect for understanding the process, and they’ve actually inspired me to practice with miniatures. Thank you!

Thanks for a great video. I really like your analytical approach to knitting and have learned a lot from you.

I finished the yoke and underarm of my first sweater. Thank you for sharing these skills. I’m using Ann Budd’s “Top-down sweaters” book as the pattern. It’s been a journey to build the skills and understanding to knit this since I began 2yrs ago. Your “Casual Friday” podcast and “Technique Tuesday” videos were so helpful. Thx!

Thanks so much for all these sweater videos. That is what I love making the most.❤️🧶

Thanks so much for another great teaching episode. You break things down to help others to build their skills and I so appreciate this.

…and I learn something more yet again. Thanks for all your videos and all the work and knowledge you put into them!

You really are my Knitting Guru. Thank you so much for the time you put into them.

Thank you so much. You are the go to for me. Your experience and teaching style makes me feel comfortable with whatever I’m tackling.

Thank you Roxanne, I squeal with delight at those miniature sweaters. Think I'll have to make some of my own.

Thanks so much. Once again, this was a fabulous tutorial. The details re the yoke and decreasing was extremely helpful. Rox rocks once again! This series has been so informative.

Love this video. Thank you for creating it. I had been looking for a sweater overview before I embark on my first one rather than a knit-along. This is great!

Thank you so much for a great episode!😃 You always explain in a very understandable way.👍🏻👍🏻 And I was so happy to see how you do decrease rounds on the yoke. There are so many designers who solve it by decrease equally over 3 or 4 rounds, and they start right after joining the sleeves and body together (bottom up). I don't think this gives a good fit, and I was so happy when I saw how you solve this. Now I finally got confirmation that my thoughts and solutions have not been wrong.😃 I recently discovered your channel, so now I have a lot of great episodes to watch. 👏🏻

This has been an incredible series, Roxy! Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us, i definitely feel like I've learned a lot from this mini-series and feel more confident about knitting seamless top down yokes and raglans now!

Best explanation I've heard so far. Thank you.

Your video library is amazing. In delivery of your clear language and explanations, all expressed in the terms you have clearly stated. It’s the engineering training and I love it. On the note, the under arms benefit from a gusset, to increase ease. This is a common element of Gansey sweater construction in Scottish knitting.

You give us the main lesson - ability to think and count our own projects Great thanks!!

Thank you ever so much for putting out this video! I’ve knit a lot of sweaters over the years, but only one circular yoke! I have a circular yoke pattern I’d like to modify for extra wide shoulders, and now I know exactly how to do it. I’m always grateful for your videos; be they your Casual Friday podcast, or Technique Tuesday offerings, I never fail to learn something new or look at something “old’ from a new perspective. Thank you for all you do. Love, light & blessings to you and yours.

Wonderfully informative as always. Interesting to learn about how the yarn weight & structure will affect the shape of the sweater. Thank you so much.

Wow! Such great info and so well explained. Thank you! ❤

Love your videos - they are very helpful and I learn so much from you! Thank you

I love this. I have a few of Elizabeth’s books and the top down sweaters. I had to stop knitting and crocheting cause of my husband’s health. It’s been years but I’m back 😊 Her %’s are way too small for me. Now I’m encouraged to keep trying (also big tummy 😂). Thank you so much.😊

this is amazing knowledge to share..... thank you

Thank you, perfect as I'm about to knit 2 of these

This math explanation was exactly what I needed! Thank you. :)

Super helpful video, as always! And I really appreciate the book recommendations. I find myself wanting to understand sweater construction on a deeper level rather than just following a pattern, so I can really get a great fit and really know what I'm doing. One day I want to have my aunts' skill level, they'd just look at an article of clothing and know how to more or less replicate it. It's like the difference between following recipes and the "take two drinking glasses of water, a tea glass of oil, add enough flour and knead until it's done" tradition of cooking (my friend's mom's recipe for phyllo pastry 😅). They couldn't tell you anything about gluten development and Maillard reactions and dough hydration, but they're masters of their craft. I want to do both - I want to learn what works without having to always rely on outside sources, but I'm also nerdy enough to want to know the details of why everything works the way it does 😂

Thank you for this video, I've learned so much that I did not know.

This video was lit! THANK YOU!!!

So incredibly helpful!!!! Thanks a lot. On my way to creating a mini baby sweater like yours to test it out

Thanks again for helping me re-construct a sweater. I have most of your book suggestions, so duh on me!

Wow, so much to learn. I was thinking about that and wondered if you had a switch somewhere in your head so I could download it straight into my head. Don't know if that would work but gosh it would be so useful. Love the little mini sweater, you certainly go to so much trouble with your videos and they are so worth watching. I do several times just to make sure. Thank you for your visit and the really interesting information. Take care.

@bearitraeb

Жыл бұрын

I feel ya there.

Wow. Thank you! And here I thought I wasn't that interested in circular yoke sweaters… Silly me. You make it all seem like a whodunit - - and you gotta stay put to find out the ending! Interesting about the short row placement. I finished a sweater (really big win for me) with a yoke construction which did not include or advise short rows. I only realized later what was missing - - so sad. It's still nice, but I am always tugging at the back. Thank you so much for all your amazing information and your calm, succinct delivery!

Your sweater is so pretty! I’d like to try that small sweater before I jump into an adult version

Thank you for explaining so much ahout sweater construction

Wowwwww It is so interesting. Thank you so much

Those little sweaters are so cute I can't stand it!

Really interesting! Thank-you!

Great video! If I ever make another bottom-up yoke sweater, I will follow watch this 20 times before starting. I had the very unfortunate experience of knitting such a sweater in a full-colorwork design from a famous famous famous and very popular designer who sells her own expensive wool as kits, and … well, let’s leave it there. No short rows were included, so I found a way to throw some in, though I had very little idea what I was doing, and my fear of overdoing things resulted in minimal positive effect. But the worst part was that my row gauge was off, and it wasn’t until I was close to finishing that I realized that I was going to have major bagginess under the arms because the yoke itself was too long. I don’t remember exactly what I did-I mean, after panicking, of course. It was pretty haphazard. In any case, I did have to eliminate a chunk of patterning in the yoke, and I had to unscientifically and blindly experiment with my rate of decreases until I got some kind of reasonable fit that didn’t look too Frankensteinian. I took photos of me modeling the finished sweater. Everyone gave me compliments-out of pity, I suppose. I didn’t tell them how much I despise the thing and how it was a matter of complete luck that the thing fit me at all. I never wear it, and I can’t really frog it because the whole thing is colorwork with about ten or twelve different colors in short-ish strands. I’ve seen many project pages for this design on Ravelry where knitters have complained of the same problem: “It’s too baggy under the arms!” Yeah, that happens when your row gauge is off and you don’t have a clue how to make adjustments. I do not avoid making yoke sweaters, but I’ve been sticking to top-down construction, where I can control the fit of the yoke a lot better. But after watching your video, I’m tempted to try out that percentage stuff and working from MY gauge instead of a designer’s. And I think I’ll skip the colorwork for now. Fit is the thing I care about most.

Great content. Thank you 💕

Very interesting...thanks for sharing. 🙂

PS. Like the new cover format for both your Casual Friday & Technique Tuesday videos and how they are slightly different in colourway and image presentation. Quite classy.

@RoxanneRichardson

Жыл бұрын

I had such trouble with thumbnails, so I asked my daughter to help me and I'm not kidding, she had the solution in five minutes.

I wonder if I have come up with an impossible sweater or if I put my thinking cap on could I find a way to make it work top down cable knit sweater that fit perfectly with no issues. Thank you for inspiring me….right now I think it could be a wedge shape sweater construction and that if I wanted cables for the whole length of the arms it should be a different design smaller than the design for the central design for the front cables and the backside cables kinda wish I was a master knitter….would there be side cables that would use the underarm stitches mirroring the cables on the top central portion of the sleeve…..good grief I have another idea make a hood …big smile on my face no cables some ribbing instead I can’t visualize how it might be done I really shouldn’t be awake at four o’clock in the morning watching my favourite master knitter this has been an interesting day so far see you in the next one again thank you live long and prosper 👍😘💕💞💕🥰👍🍀🌟🍀🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🍀🌟🍀😊🤷🏼‍♀️🥳🙋🏼‍♀️

Thanks for all your knowledge. If you never knit a sweater before lol could you recommend one for me as a sweater newbie.

The seamless yoke style sweater sounds easier ezcept for fitting. I have square shoulders an wonder if would need to adjust and add more stitches in this area? Also snug or crew neck style is uncomfortable. Thanks for ideas.

Love this series on sweater styles. Although I do like the yoke style sweaters, when one has broad shoulders, I've always found this style of sweater is harder to fit. I find the sleeves don't have the room I need to move freely. I know I could add ease, but I'm not one for loose fitting sweaters.

@RoxanneRichardson

Жыл бұрын

You might need the shaping to be contained further up the yoke, in order to keep the full circumference longer. I'd recommend reading the article I linked to at the end of the resources listed in the description.

@deliriousrobinnails300

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for such a well-organized and understandable overview of circular yoke construction, as well as your recommendations for additional resources. I am not an experienced knitter, but I am able to follow a pattern. All too often it appears that people choose to knit a larger size in an effort to compensate for issues with fit, and more times than not, that strategy is not successful. I’d personally prefer to prevent those problems to begin with, and understanding exactly how various types of garments are constructed seems pretty important-at least to my nerdy science brain! Thank you very much for sharing your wealth of expertise and experience in such a clear way!

Does a large bust negate the need for extra stitches at the back? Thank you

Making a top down cardigan for my Gymnast granddaughter . She has broad shoulders but narrow body. Does adding stitches under arm compensate instead of continuing to increase in the yoke?

Thanks for all this great information. I love yoke sweater construction, it really suits my sloppy shoulders, but I have just now realized why I like very light yarn like chained yarns or blown yarns, they also keep the sweater shape very well. Quite a few top-down patterns I used folllow a yoke construction plus a bit of raglan just before splitting for the sleeves. They really fit well. Ranunculus is one of them, and Fairy Bouquet also use that type of construction. I have an intuition it is also best fitting for larger sizes, would you agree ?

@RoxanneRichardson

Жыл бұрын

It is probably a good solution when the bust/chest is larger than average for the shoulders/frame (i.e. narrow shoulders or busty). It allows you to reduce the circumference a bit, until you get up to the point where you need to start the yoke design.

Thank you

Thanks for that clear explanation. That's the better I've read till now. I really like your cardigan. Does it comes from a pattern?

@RoxanneRichardson

Жыл бұрын

I linked to my Ravelry project page in the video description. It's a vintage pattern from 1938. It's a free digitized pattern, available in one size only.

Rox I knit a bottom up sweater for my daughter and it's not long enough. Do you have a video on how to add length. This is my 1st bottom up and it seems pretty complicated.

@RoxanneRichardson

Жыл бұрын

I have this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l22B26StXaawo6w.html

A lot of stranded color work patterns have large neck openings, almost to the shoulder. How do I make it smaller?

@mscdbran

Жыл бұрын

I should add it's knitted in the round bottom up.

Your example is very clear and the reasons are also clear. I'm still a little gobsmacked that the example has a chest/torso of 39 inches with a yoke diameter (around the arms, back and front) of 59 inches. That seems really huge to me. You did add a qualifier that these proportions will not fit every body type. Is it common to finesse the general percentages to arrive at one's measurements? Thanks!

@RoxanneRichardson

5 ай бұрын

Some people will have arms that are large, relative to their bust, or busts that are large relative to their arms, or a front that is considerably larger than their back. For people with any sort of fit issue that doesn't fit the "average" for their size, if they don't finesse the percentages, they won't end up with a sweater that fits well. Hand knits aren't any different than ready to wear clothing. Some of it will fit some people really well, others not so well, and some not at all. The beauty of knitting for yourself is that it *can* fit you really well, if you knit it with your actual body measurements in mind.

@lisasweet2536

5 ай бұрын

@@RoxanneRichardson Of course you are absolutely right. I was trying to figure the measurements for my scrawny form, and couldn't quite believe that my 39 inch torso required about 138% more in the shoulders/yoke. But I measured my favorite sweater, and sure enough... the proportions were about the same. Thanks for all the wisdom you share with us!

thank you a lot for all the tips, teckniques and your time you give us. i need help, i bought a yarn that should be knitted with 10no needles. i want to knit a cardigan but don't want it to be too bulky, and dont want to seem fatter than i am. can you recommend me what to do. should i knit long to my under-butt, or cut it at belt length, or somewhere in between. should i make a v-yoke or circular. from top-down or down to top. i am very confused. i like the yarn a lot, so don't want to waste it. any ideas please. or can i knit a dress? i looove dresses but haven't knitted any, don't know the logic. is it appropriate thick yarns for dresses? thanks for shaing your precious time, wish you the best, love from turkiye:)

@cengizselvi8751

Жыл бұрын

i mean what would you do with this type of yarn?

@RoxanneRichardson

Жыл бұрын

I would recommend looking up the yarn on Ravelry, and then seeing what sorts of projects other people have used it for.

@cengizselvi8751

Жыл бұрын

@@RoxanneRichardson thank you very much. appreciate your suggestion. :))

Love your videos especially since I'm math challenged. Question. The UA stitches are 14st on top and bottom of each sleeve/body? That's what I'm seeing. Just asking. Never knit a circular youke so it's different? 😊 Other please be kind. I really am math deficient.

@gorogueknits5876

Жыл бұрын

Yes! In this example, Rox will put 14 stitches for each arm at the sides of the body, and 14 stitches on each sleeve for the body. Using her gauge, that will be just under 3" worth of stitches for each underarm. :)

@teresayoung4145

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your information. I appreciate it.

I'm a new knitter. I saw a picture of someone working on a yoke sweater with 2 sets of cabled needles. I had asked if that Is a normal thing and how'd they be able to do that. I'm not sure if the answer was serious or not. Is it typical to use 2 sets of needles at the same time?

@RoxanneRichardson

Жыл бұрын

There are always multiple ways of getting to the same point in knitting. That is true of knitting in the round. There are many ways to do it, and none of them are more right than the others, but it's always worth trying out new techniques to see if you like it better than other techniques you have used previously to accomplish the same task. The two circs method is one way to knit in the round. I use it myself only in very specific circumstances, because prefer using a single circular needle most of the time. Some knitters use two circs for everything. I have a video on how the technique works here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gq6E2dSum5WTc7w.html

How do I separate the sleeves from the body? I am doing a top down yoke (first time) is there a tutorial?

@RoxanneRichardson

2 ай бұрын

I have a *really* old video on this, which you can find here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aqKJj9eYj9qcpbQ.html

@sarahbrouwer7289

2 ай бұрын

@@RoxanneRichardson thank you. You knew what I was looking for 🤗

I just need to remind myself that I’ll get there but I am so confused upon math 😑 and it works on paper but not in real life… soooo what that says to me is wing it. It will be just fine lol.

Is there a way to add a neck shaping with a central bind off and decreases to a bottom up circular yoke sweater? I find that the neck is always to high for me even if I stop decreasing before the pattern tells me or make the ribbing shorter.

@RoxanneRichardson

10 ай бұрын

Short row shaping tends to be the method for adding height to the back of the neck (and therefore dropping the front of the neck).