This video explains how the circular yoke sweater style is constructed and shaped. This is the fifth style of the five basic sweater styles covered in the series.
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RESOURCES
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Schoolhouse Press Pattern #39 EPS - Four Tops
Elizabeth's Percentage System Applied to 4 Yoke Styles: https://www.schoolhousepress.com/eps-four-tops-spp39.html
Knitting in the Old Way by Priscilla A. Gibson-Roberts and Deborah Robson: https://amzn.to/3fNI3ph
The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns by Ann Budd: https://amzn.to/3FYzWRu
The Knitter's Handy Book of Top-Down Sweater Patterns: https://amzn.to/3A2jkEO
Amy Herzog's Ultimate Sweater Book: https://amzn.to/3fRKVBE
Poems of Color by Wendy Keele: https://amzn.to/3NXhk6w
also, this article by Mary E. Jacobs has great information about yoke decrease approaches: https://tinyurl.com/3uymepe6
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0:00 Introduction
0:30 Basics of Circular Yokes
1:34 Bottom up vs Top Down
3:36 Yoke Shaping: Rings or Wedges
6:35 Example yoke shaping math
12:59 Adjusting the neck: short rows
14:07 Advantages and disadvantages
16:15 Resources
18:37 Inset yoke
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