Knitting a shrug-yoke top-down seamless tee shirt – part 1

Maybe you’ve never heard of a shrugyoke sweater construction. I’m not sure I’ve heard the name before, but I haven’t seen this type of design before either, so to me this is something new.

We’ve been looking at Unity and Unity Beyond yarn, and I’ve used this lovely multicolored and multi-fiber yarn to design a summer tee for my wife. I’m sharing a recipe for making your own version of this to adapt to your measurements, but if you want to follow a fully written multi-size pattern, refer back to last couple of pages, where I shared quite a few designs worked in Unity and Unity Beyond.

To knit this tee, you’ll need some intermediate knitting skills – working a provisional cast-on, short-rows, increasing and decreasing. You’ll also need to be comfortable with knitting a gauge swatch, and keeping track of several different stitch counts and row counts, as different shapings happen at the same time.

There are a few key measurements that you’ll need to take for this:

• Your full bust