This pattern starts from the top with the yoke, where you first knit the branches of the Cherry tree and then the blossoms. To shape the neck you will use two-color short-rows (not as difficult as it sounds). Below the yoke, knitting is very straight-forward in one color, until you reach the waist where you can choose to narrow it off, if you want to pronounce the waist, or leave the width for a more blocky design.

Sizes follow the Craft Yarn Council’s size table for women as closely as possible considering colorwork, with a positive ease of 5cm/2inches around the bust.

You will need yarn in three colors; background, branches and flowers. Embroidering the center of the flowers is optional, but if you want to embroider the centers with yarn, you will need a forth color.
Yardage details can be found in attached table over sizes.

Main knitting is done with 4.0mm (colorwork) /3.5mm (one-color) circular needles and ribbing is done using 3.0mm needles (circular needle for waist ribbing and DPNs for sleeves).