Create a Yoke

The Goal

Take a basic sweater shape, modify the front garment piece and add a yoke in just a few steps.

The challenge

Try it Yourself

Challenge 2

Get Knitting Instructions

Create a Yoke

The Challenge

"I have a small amount of beautiful yarn, but not enough for a whole sweater. I want to draft a sweater with a yoke to use my special yarn"

Fellow knitter, Sigrid had a garment shape that she's used again and again. Her "special yarn" knits at a completely different gauge than the main yarn she plans to use, so it isn't just a matter of switching yarns to create a yoke.

She'll create a separate piece so she can generate knitting instructions separately for the body and yoke based on her 2 gauges.

Establish the "split" by adding points
Duplicate the front piece
Remove the lower points from the copy to create the yoke
Remove the upper points from the original piece to create the lower body
Having 2 new pieces allows you to knit the separately at different gauges

Create a Yoke

Try it Yourself

[DAK_AP — interactive element, needs manual review]

Create a Yoke

Challenge 2

Challenge Yourself

Practice your skills by creating both front and back yokes for a CARDIGAN.

Download a practice sweater DesignaKnit SHP file
Establish the position of the yoke with points
Duplicate the piece
Create the yoke section by removing points
Create the lower section by removing points
Repeat for the back yoke

TIP:

To create the cardi front yoke, we need to add a point (#7) to match the existing armhole point (#13).

Then duplicate and split the pieces as in the previous example

Create a Yoke

Create Knitting Instructions

Different Gauges?

Now that we've created separate pieces for the yoke, how do we generate knitting instructions for different gauges?

Remember, the Original Pattern Drafting workspace only "sees" one gauge at a time.
We cannot assign different gauges to individual pieces.

Printed Instructions:

Set your YOKE tension
Generate your printed instructions
Clearly mark the instructions "YOKE"

Set your GARMENT tension
Generate your printed instructions
Clearly mark these instructions "BODY"

Keeping track of the written instructions and following the right ones for each piece is an extra challenge.

Interactive Knitting:

Choose your garment piece
Set the tensions for that piece
Follow the pattern instructions for that piece at that gauge
Repeat for each garment piece

Create a Yoke

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