I had so much fun doing that yoke Sat & Sun that I decided yesterday afternoon to cast on another! This time I am using Knitpicks Merino Style wool in colors I had on hand. I am stashbustin!
The math to figure this one out took me a while. I couldn’t find my calculator so I did it all by good old fashioned long division & multiplication. I even did a gauge swatch to make sure I got it all correct! So once that was figured out I provisionally cast on in the main body color of brown. I don’t remember the actual knitpicks color name but I am sure it’s not anything close to the actual color. I am going to do short sleeves on this sweater, I think the cherry motif lends itself to that. I have a ton of cotton in my stash that I am thinking would be used perfectly for some fun summery fair isle tops.
The lamb’s pride yoke sweater is all divided for sleeves and body & I have an inch and a half or so done on the body. Tracy has the size 8, 12 inch, addi turbo’s that I need for the sleeves, once I get them I will start one of the sleeves too.
I forgot to mention it but I used one different yarn in this yoke. If you look under the large section of red you will see a light green with a little bit of sparkle in it. It’s berrocco Beadnik, it is prestrung with beads! You can’t see them on the picture, they are pretty spread out but they add just a tad bit of bling. I did another 2 rows of it up at the base of the collar too.
My thought is that you can never have too many stockinette projects on hand for working on in front of the tv, traveling or taking to a coffee house to work on. But isn’t knitting all about enjoying what you are creating? Not just torturing yourself to get something finished? Therefore, I will do as many fair isle yokes as I can until I just don’t wanna anymore!