As far as I can tell, today should be more good times knitting this sweater. I love knitting Briggs and Little and I love the way this sweater is looking.
I also may have made a big decision on the Yellow Folklore sweater. It currently looks like this.
I need another set of increases and I don't quite understand why. I know it is the math and everything, but the yoke just feels wrong. It has had me thinking a lot about my first Folklore sweater. I wore it to bits and there were things about it that I really loved. But there were also things about it that irritated me. The yoke had the same trouble as I am having now and the fit was less than perfect. I find many round yokes are like that.
My whole thing with this deep rich yellow yarn from Arcane Fibre Works was the colour play of the pops of stormy skies popping up along the rich yellow. While that is happening with the sweater, I find myself a little less than pleased with the way the stitch pattern I am using sets the pops of colour under the brilliant yellow.
Engineering Knits has a pattern for her Mohn Cardigan (Youtube channel too), a really lovely sweater knit off of a vintage design and her colours pop out rather than slipping under the main colour. That made me think there may be other ways of knitting the pops of colour without having to have a round yoke. When I was looking in my stitch dictionaries the other day, I found several! So, as much as I hate to do it, I am going to frog the Yellow and start over with a yoke that I can fit more easily and a stitch pattern where the pops will come out of the main colour background.
And so it goes. I lose the hours I knit the yellow sweater so far, but I will gain a sweater I like even more.
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