Strawberry Shortie

My version

 

I've been obsessing about circular yokes lately. I found a pattern or two on Ravelry and decided now is the time to try one out. But the pattern I found was only for one size, way too small for me, so I had to figure out how to enlarge it and on my second try, I got the right formula. Then I had to adapt it to the smaller amount of yarn I wanted to use.  This is  Karabella Merino, and I had only six hundred yards. So the finished product would not have long sleeves and while I did knit it without the ribbed bottom, I frogged that because it was so short and unflattering. http://www.ravelry.com/projects/123zibberanne/simplest-sweater and http://www.ravelry.com/projects/blueyehti/grommet-eyelet-ridge-cardi-vest
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/briggs-street
 
I feel the need to explain my motivations. Knitting, for me, is the challenge of figuring out the puzzle. I am not interested in duplicating the exact design, only  in finding out the gist of how it is done, since I know I am going to change it anyhow and then do variations from that point onward. That's the shortest explanation. I am leaving out the lying in bed imagining construction approaches, and alternate design tweeks.

So when I show you the finished product, what I am showing is that I got the rounded yoke, the just right sleeves and the 'fix' of the more flattering fitted ribbing.
Now I am able to design something from this point onward that I know will work.
The concept is pretty darn simple. Cast on a number of stitches and increase (M1) in equidistant sites, every six rows or so, about four times. Put the armholes on waste yarn and knit the body. I added a few underarm stitches and some extra increases for the bust. Also, I did short rows for the back neck, to raise it, as I like to do.

Some have commented that I am a fast knitter. Not so true. I am not fast, I just don't do a blasted thing but knit all day. I love sitting on the deck and knitting, and then inside when it gets dark, in front of the TV. Nothing else gets done til I conquer the latest challenge.
Really. Obsessive.