This is my first colourwork sweater, wish me luck!

I am hoping to make it long sleeved, but will not have enough Colour A (gray - 472 yards) to keep the patterning going all the way down if I do so. I have plenty of Colour B (natural tweed) though so will see how I go after I seperate for the sleeves and will look at fading out the pattern perhaps. I don’t have anything else in my stash that I can add and really want to just knit this from stash yarn.

Started June 2nd (due to time difference between US and Australia).

Body: Knit final chart repeat to Row 31 inclusive. Knit 1 row plain. Change to 3.75mm (US 5) needle for ribbing. Tubular bind off - https://youtu.be/Ec3-qKwIP0E

Sleeve 1 - Picked up 18 (instead of 12) for 6 repeats of pattern. I found the sleeve too tight with only 12 stitches. (repeat 1 - rows 19- 44 and 1-24 = 41g of the grey colour left), move to sleeve 2.

Sleeve 2: Repeat 1: rows 19-44 and 1-24 = 26g of the grey colour left
Repeat 2: rows 25-44 and 1-2 = 15g left, 66 stitches.

Cuff: white yarn - 3.5mm needles - row 1: k1, k2 tog, k to marker, repeat 2 more times, k to 3 stitches before next marker, ssk, k1, repeat 2 more times. 6 stitches decreased (60 stitches total).

Ribbing, approx 4 inches (36 rows in total including set up round) - k1, p1 - using purl through back loop technique - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32R6S5x14HA

Tubular bind off.

2 June - Finished Clue #1
3 June - Finished Clue #2
4 June - Started Clue #3
8 June - Finished Clue #3 and Clue #4, started Clue #5
9 June - Finished Clue #5
10 June - Started Clue #6&7 (finished row 5 of step 10)
13 June - Finished Clues #6&7 and Clue #8 (sleeve separation at Row 19 instead of 24), started Clue #9 (finished row 25)
14 June - continuing the torso, rows 26 - 40
15 June - continuing the torso, rows 41-44, 1-6
16 June - continuing the torso, rows 7-12
17 June - continuing the torso, rows 13-18
18 June - continuing the torso, rows 19-28
19 June - Adjusted rows 29-31, started ribbing
20 June - started sleeve
23 June - ripped sleeve out and restarted as too tight
26 June - still too tight, need a break to decide how to proceed.
29 June - ripped back and started sleeve 1 (attempt #3)
30 June - tried it on after Row 35, sleeve is feeling much better
1 July - to make sure the sleeves are even, starting sleeve 2 and weighing gray yarn
18 July - Finished Sleeve 1
25 July - Finished Sleeve 2 and wove in ends