*shrug*

*shrug* started out as 'Evonne' from Berroco

http://www.berroco.com/exclusives/evonne/evonne.html

I knew that I was short yarn, and I knew that I would have to make modifications. I had two skeins of Patons Divine, 284 yards total, so while I was knitting the back I was formulating in my mind what I needed to do. I knit right up to the neck ridge directions, and stopped, without making the neck indentation.

Put those stitches live on a long straight needle for safekeeping. Using my second skein I made two sleeves. The directions called for 40 CO, but I thought the sleeves looked pretty wide, and my gauge was a little bigger, so I cut it to 30 CO, I followed the directions pretty much for both sleeves, because I knew I had to match the sleeve holes on the back I had made. When I finished the first sleeve, I put it live on a holder. When the second sleeve was done, I slipped all three back onto my working needles. One sleeve, the back, and the second sleeve, I purled across all three, and then when I got to the end of the furthest sleeve, I picked up stitches along the back ridge, turned the needles and knit all the way back across till I came to the other end of the far sleeve, and picked up stitches along the other back ridge.

Back and forth for several rows, knitting and purling. On the second row I started decreasing the lowest stitches on both sides of the back ridge, one each side. My yarn was fast disappearing, so I knew in order to make a sort of front, I'd have to start decreasing the back portion of stitches. I wanted more material to the front, than at the neck, so I started decreasing at the shoulder to the count of five. In other words, I would knit 5 stitches and then decrease all across the back. I did it only when I was on a knit row. I also kept up the decreasing at the lower back for several rounds, about five, and then stopped the decreases on the front. Eventually because I was really sweating the yarn situation, must have been somewhere around the fifteenth row, I started my back decreasing, and even around the front to the tune of knit four, decrease. I think I even did it on a few purl rounds when I could see through my skein. Had I had more yarn, I probably would have kept it a touch fuller. I bound off on a knit round, sewed up the sleeves, the back to the sleeve and weaved my loose ends in.

Done