Men’s Circular Mods

Here I am in July knitting a circular yoke for my son-in-law. It seemed like a good idea at the time but the weather is not exactly cooperating.

This is my second Lunenburg by Amy Christoffers.

This time I didn’t follow the rules. I printed the chart in black and white.

This is only a part of the chart. I didn’t want to give it all away since this is a paid pattern.

Now the fun begins. What colours to put where? At one point I started into a red/green area. Oops, looked a little too Christmasy so ripped that back and tried to keep those two colours away from each other.

It was an interesting exercise and I will do it again.

I decided I could make some changes for a men’s version. I think most people are knitting for a woman, themselves I hope.

I knit the yoke 1/2 inch longer and then worked more short rows at the bottom of the yoke. I searched around and found a suggestion for starting them in the centre of the sleeve and making the short rows longer and longer towards the front. It gave me more room to get some extra rows in. The back is now about 1.5 inches longer.

Men need a bit more length in the back for thicker shoulders. I am also going to taper the body so it’s narrower at the hip. I’ll see if this works when it’s done. Here’s a side view.

I think you can see that there is quite a difference between the front on the right and the back on the left of the photo. I’ve separated the sleeves and am now working round and round and round and round. Yes, it’s going to feel like I’ll be doing this forever!!! Maybe knitting for someone 5’11” inches tall in the summer wasn’t one of my best ideas?!

Meanwhile, I mentioned on my last post that I needed some progress markers and several days later my sister made me some. Thanks Lyn.

Now I do feel like I am getting somewhere on this Twelve-Point Circular Yoke.

I also have finished the body of this V-Neck Pullover. Yay. It’s all wrinkled because I stuffed it into a small project bag. Blocking it here at camp will be interesting: cold lake water and the sun.

It seems like summer has arrived in Northern Ontario so progress may slow down. I heard someone say that they had several projects on the go so worked on a different one every day. That sounds good to me so that’s my plan going forward.

How is your summer going?

Cheers, Deb

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