When you finish both sleeves, you start work on the body

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You work till time to join the sleeves. I didn’t take a picture of this part. I started the yoke, using a design from Priscilla’s book and putting the decreases in the pattern. Here’s what it looked like:

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There were problems. I didn’t like the way the decreases affected the design. And the white yarn was consistently thicker. Also, I was trying to avoid long floats by weaving in. I finished the sweater, wove in the ends and tried it on. It did not meet my vision of a faded pattern. So I did this:

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This is me cutting off the yoke! Since I would just be knitting a new yoke, I knew that it wouldn’t take long to fix. I left the longer floats, changed the decreases and came up with this:

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I finished it and blocked it. This is the final result:

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I’ve worn it in the woods and it is a cozy and warm sweater. I’m really happy I redid the yoke. And I’m trying to sort out my notes as I work on the next one.

I used the ribbing suggested in the video I linked. It’s very easy to do. You work the two sleeves first, since this is a bottom to top sweater. They act as you gauge swatch. Nothing fancy here. I wanted a fairly plain design. You can try as you go and adjust the speed of the increase.

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I’m working on a second Icelandic sweater so I will try to post the rest of my tutorial next weekend, when I’m off.