EZ's seamless sweater finishing

I don't know about you, guys, but EZ's percentage system just doesn't work for me. As I understand, the neck shouldn't stand up. I did everything as she wrote: decreased to 40% of total body stitches (108 sts)(=44 sts), done back-of -neck shaping and ribbing for 1". Keep in mind that the yoke is even SHORTER than it should be (should be 1/4 of the circumference of the body, which is 36"=9" and my yoke is 8").It doesn't look good.


For this type of sweater the collar should LIE on the neck, not stand up. I want to rip it back to end of the yoke and do plain St st neck so the collar would curl outward from the body, without back-of-neck shaping. Any suggestions, comments?

Cross your fingers for me

Here is my progress:

Is it OK to have slightly longer yoke? (instead of 9''according to EZ PS--10'', but have in mind that I'm tall). I hope my first sweater turn out to look good!

Q

Is it possible to knit EZ's sweaters from the top down?

Help with seamless yoke sweater percentage system

I've read from the post from Jan 13 here that there is an updated version of EZ's percentage system. Instead of 3 times decrease 33%, you do 1st-25%, 2nd-33%, 3rd-40%. Also 8% is too tight (then what it should be?). Ans that sleeves are jenerally too wide (again-how wide they should be to be slim?)
Is there something else that I'm missing? I'm working on it now (as you know already--see my disaster below) and want my sweater to be perfect).
P.S. Update--I've redone the body already and begun the first sleeve)

Help with seamless yoke sweater percentage system

I've read from the post from Jan 13 here that there is an updated version of EZ's percentage system. Instead of 3 times decrease 33%, you do 1st-25%, 2nd-33%, 3rd-40%. Also 8% is too tight (then what it should be?). Ans that sleeves are jenerally too wide (again-how wide they should be to be slim?)
Is there something else that I'm missing? I'm working on it now (as you know already--see my disaster below) and want my sweater to be perfect).
P.S. Update--I've redone the body already and begun the first sleeve)

Help with seamless yoke sweater

I've read from the post from Jan 13 here that there is an updated version of EZ's percentage system. Instead of 3 times decrease 33%, you do 1st-25%, 2nd-33%, 3rd-40%. Also 8% is too tight (then what it should be?). Ans that sleeves are jenerally too wide (again-how wide they should be to be slim?)
Is there something else that I'm missing? I'm working on it now (as you know already--see my disaster below) and want my sweater to be perfect).
P.S. Update--I've redone the body already and begun the first sleeve)

EZ's first sweater, first attempt that gone wrong

4 or 5 days of work will have no future--I'm going to frog it! Right now!


First, I decided to do everything completely as EZ says: hems at lower edge and on sleeves, her method of increasing on sleeves and her 40" around body--because I'm pregnant and was in doubt what circumference I want to do.
40" have been too wide even for my pregnant 7 mo. belly!
Increasing on sleeves--too drastic, and the ending circumferences were too wide also.
At the end, I didn't like that there is no ribbing around lower edges on sleeves and body--I didn't like that I need to go back after I'm done and do it! (It would have been difficult because I was doing it on ONE big circular needle, and it's not fun).
I was lucky that I found a pattern in FC Easy Knitting summer/spring 2004 that was founded on EZ's system (not precise, though). And I also liked the pattern on this yoke. The only disadvantage is that the pattern is designed for men! So, I'm changing figures and will do 36" around the body and take the yoke pattern (which is for women really because of big flowers).



P.S. When I was uniting the body and one sleeve yesterday, I discovered that there are only 110 stitches in the body, not 120 as I planned! That was a HUGE discovery for me, I didn't expect it!! And I was done with sleeves already (that should be 33% of the body stitches around at the end)--so they were wrong either. Initially, I wanted just to redo the sleeves from the point of increasing, and then decided to redo them all over to add ribbing. At the end, I decided to redo the whole body to make it smaller and add ribbing too.
I've been sitting yesterday until 5.30 in the morning, trying to draw the pattern that I like.

Later, when I was in bed, I decided to take this flower pattern from the magazine anyway. I was concerned because it has more than 5 stitches of one color in one row at the bottom and decreasing that didn't suit the EZ's decreasing style. I will solve these problems by adding little dots and do decreasing at the end of the yoke after I'm done with colors.


P.S. Maybe do you know where I can find READY ski sweater pattern for a women and men ?