We have yoke

Brace yourself:

I not only finished the sleeves on my giant Icelandic-style sweater, I moved on to the yoke! 

What do you think of the colour pattern? I ended up improvising, owing to not being able to choose from the options at hand.

This one seemed too pointy...

And this one, too busy...

This one looked just right but I had to finesse because the pattern repeat required a different stitch count.

 

Then, when I got up to the first round of decreases, I didn't like where they went, or how. I mean, K2tog, put in some colour, K2tog? I felt like there was potential for something more balanced. I ended up with a left-leaning increase followed immediately by a right-leaning increase, centred on a patch of the main colour, which gave me some texture. Nothing so extreme as a bobble, and it might go flat after blocking, but I kinda like it.

The next band in the pattern didn't seem to be centred on the points below it, so I moved them over. Then I realized the other colours I picked to go into the mix were too bold for the green/gold combo, and decided to ditch them. Instead I flipped the main and contrast colours. Shifting the design over a few stitches made the next round of decreases much easier, but when I finished the band I wasn't sure what to do next. 

Answer: keep wingin' it! I have officially given up on the pattern grid apart from counting how many rounds fall between decreases. 

The top two pattern bands are me, knit without referring to anything but the stitches themselves. I just hope it'll all come out right in the end.

I can't help thinking how gorgeous a sweater like this would be on small needles... you can get so detailed then. This one is chunky yarn is just enormous and sits on my lap like an overfed cat. Everything but the purr, basically. No idea where I'll even store this monster when it's done, and not on me. 

But that's a problem for another day, when I've finished the neck and run in the ends, which I hope will be very soon. Hope you have a great weekend lined up and thank you for including me in it! See you next week, maybe with a finished sweater to show off... wouldn't that be exciting??