A new yoke sweater

Bad picture, since I cannot get the greens to come out properly.  So it goes.  Played with my camera and my phone, and this is the best.  Meh.  Much more green at the top and very dark at the bottom.  Good thing I don't make a living from photography.

This is a top-down yoke sweater, based loosely on the Spector sweater by Jo Ji.  I know that it looks impossibly skinny, but it isn't.  I'm just working on a 24" long circular needle, so the 37-38" of sweater are all gooshed together.  I'm usually a 37" sweater, but wanted this to be a bit looser.  It fits, 'cause I tried it on.

My Spector sweater

My Spector sweater, designed by JoJi Locatelli.  I rarely use someone else's sweater pattern because I've been doing my own sweater thing for about 45 years. But every now and then, I see something that I really like, and I make it.

4 skeins of Madeline Tosh Twist Light, a basic sock yarn, plied, not a singles.  Simply Socks had a kit (and you know I rarely buy kits, but this was perfect).  This is the first time I've used sock yarn in a sweater, and now I know how to work with it.  In sock knitting, you want nice tight stitches, but not drapey like in a sweater.  I will use sock yarn again.

I love all of this sweater.  Mods for the next time:  shorter sleeves and body; this thing grew in the blocking.  I would use the basic shaping again, but put in my own patterns.  The yoke was fun, the sleeves and body, endless, but I expected that.

Me, attempting to hide my old lady tummy (with no success at all).  I'm not going on a diet.  Piffle.  

Thanks, Bishop Stone!  I love the fade very much.