{"id":9034,"date":"2017-12-06T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/?p=9034"},"modified":"2024-09-06T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T18:47:06","slug":"hunters-yoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/?p=9034","title":{"rendered":"Hunter’s Yoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Hunter’s September sweater (details on all the September sweaters here<\/a>) this year I decided to go with the lovely wedge chart we included as an example in the Strange Brew pattern<\/a>. It has a pretty icicle feel to it, and I loved the little diamonds in between. In order to work in this chart I had to make a few small alterations to the stitch count at the yoke.<\/p>\n

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Project Details:<\/h2>\n

Pattern:<\/strong> Strange Brew<\/a> with mods (detailed below)
Yarn:<\/strong> Brooklyn Tweed Arbor<\/a> in ‘Alizarin’
Size:<\/strong> 8-10 yr (Hunter wears a commercial size 7-8 so I knit it with a little room to grow)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To begin, I knit the sleeves and body per pattern. Once I had joined it all together for the yoke I worked short row shaping before starting the yoke patterning. I didn’t want short row shaping above the charts, it seemed better to have the icicles extend all the way to the neckline. The chart was a multiple of 16 sts, so I needed to decrease 216 to 208 sts to accommodate this (13 x 16 = 208). I worked my 8 decreases on the last round of my short row shaping, while picking up my wraps.<\/p>\n

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I used this chart (it’s included within the Strange Brew pattern<\/a>), which begins as a 16-stitch repeat, and decreases to a 6-stitch repeat by round 34.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next I worked the chart as it was. It was a few rounds taller than I needed for Hunter’s size, but I figured a few rounds wouldn’t break anything. As the chart fit 13 times around this yoke, when I was finished the chart I had 78 sts, rather than the 96 sts I was aiming for in the 8-10 year size. I debated taking it back a few rounds and skipping the last set of decreases (which would have given me 104 sts), but knitting is pretty stretchy and I was already done, so I worked the ribbing, a loose bind off, and it still fit just fine. If it had been too tight, I could have taken it back to round 34 of the chart, skipped the decreases there, and had 104 sts (13 repeats x 8 sts). Then I could have decreased 8 sts to 96 sts before the ribbing.<\/p>\n

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Voila! Hunter loves it, and it can even double as her Christmas sweater in all it’s red and white glory. Tomorrow I will detail Jonesy’s yoke!<\/p>\n

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More Fair Isle on kiddos from TCK:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Emily whipped up this wedge chart as an example, but I just had to knit it! Hunter’s September sweater is a classic Strange Brew wedge design. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2474659,"featured_media":9051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[697557662],"tags":[1114945,597483513,140176],"class_list":["post-9034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-knits","tag-kid-knits","tag-september-sweaters","tag-strange-brew","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1z4ty-2lI","builder_content":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.tincanknits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_1189-sm.jpg?fit=600%2C900&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2474659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9034"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29401,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions\/29401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}