round yoke baby sweater

#1

I am wanting to change an eyelet, top-down baby cardigan to a plai
n yolk but am going round in circles trying to figure out the increases. Is there a formula to do this?

#2

Welcome to KH!
What is the name of the eyelet yoke sweater pattern?
You could possibly use the increases or rate of increase for the plain yoke and just substitute your favorite increase.
Looking at fairly plain yoke baby sweater patterns on Ravelry may also help. There are several free patterns if you do a search.
This article from Interweave has some good advice.

#3

Thank you for your response - the pattern is Marianna’s Top-Down with long sleeves, which gives a really nice shape to the neck as I don’t like the neck on the raglan shaping, top-down sweaters. It has yfwd, k1, yfwd, k4, with the k between the yfwds increasing by 1 each row. I’m wanting to do kfb as my increases to have a plain yoke but can’t get it sorted out! I start with co 57 st, then increase by 18 st every fourth row, but am struggling to work out the increase spacing. I have checked on Ravelry and am trying one from there now but I think it is going to be bigger than I want.

Cheers

Jocelyn

#4

Marianna Mel’s patterns are very pretty and very popular.
The kfb will work as long as you consider the stitch used for the kfb as one of the pattern stitches and not an additional stitch. So for example on row 9
K8, *(yfwd, k1, yfwd, k4) rep from * to last 4sts,k4
You have to work the kfb in the k1 and as one of the k4sts. You may be doing that already.
Alternatively you can consider that you have 57sts and you want to increase by 18 sts and use an increase calculator to do that.
http://www.thedietdiary.com/knittingfiend/tools/IncreaseEvenlySpace.html

#5

Thank you! I think that is where I have finally gotten to with my figuring! Yes, her patterns are nice. I’m knitting charity new-born sweaters and find hers are really nice to knit up.

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