{"id":20391,"date":"2025-04-15T22:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20391"},"modified":"2025-04-19T22:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:57:37","slug":"daily_3696_-_cardigan_yoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/04\/15\/daily_3696_-_cardigan_yoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3696 &#8211; cardigan yoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3696_own_design.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I started knitting on the next cardigan during the conference trip to Italy. With a thicker yarn than I tend to choose, and a slightly looser knit, it knits up fast.<\/p>\n<p>The yarn is Drops Lima, a lovely wool and alpaca blend. I love the way alpaca yarn feels.<\/p>\n<p>The design is a very simple one and mostly my own. I&#8217;ve been eyeing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/ankers-cardigan---my-size\">Ankers cardigan<\/a>, but I didn&#8217;t like the high neck with no neckline shaping. (Any cardigan design that does not show a single photo of it worn fully buttoned, is probably not going to look good fully buttoned. Knitwear designers ignore neckline shaping and waist shaping way too often, in my opinion.)<\/p>\n<p>Overall a round yoke seems simple enough, and the yoke on the Ankers is just bands of ribbing interspersed with increase rows, and I figured I could do that myself. I&#8217;ve knitted enough sweaters now to feel like I mostly know what I&#8217;m doing, and the Internet is full of helpful tutorials and guides.<\/p>\n<p>It took a full evening of arithmetic (there are a lot of details that need to line up!) and one aborted attempt that I ripped up, and now I have something that looks like it will work out and fit me decently well. It looks better on me than on the table. Even then it takes a bit of imagination to add the missing details, such as button bands, neckline edging. I hope it all comes together the way I have it planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started knitting on the next cardigan during the conference trip to Italy. With a thicker yarn than I tend to choose, and a slightly looser knit, it knits up fast. The yarn is Drops Lima, a lovely wool and alpaca blend. I love the way alpaca yarn feels. The design is a very simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20394,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions\/20394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}