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.

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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