Finished! A beautiful, well-written pattern. Construction was challenging, mainly due to my inexperience with such a large colorwork project (Have only done hats/mittens or just a yoke before this). Steeking wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be - helpful links included with pattern. My main issues were with the gauge of the fabric- and fault was particularly due to my choice of yarn - it was really too thick for the project. Result was that the sleeves are just too short due to using DPNs (vs. circular for body of sweater)… blocking wasn’t able to fix it to my daughter’s satisfaction. I did gauge swatch (even blocked it), but this is one time when I needed to replicate actual construction method (i.e. the same needle type and with a short circumference swatch). I think maybe using larger DPNs might have helped… but time constraints of testknit worked against me. :( I might reapproach this and redo at least the sleeves (for once, I have more than enough extra yarn)…

Update: slow going… but improving my two-handed stranding is helping a lot. I’m “weaving” (the carried yarn in) the larger background patches, which is slowing me down, but I dread when there’s un-blockable puckering. Going to be so warm!

Yarn was presented as “light worsted”… might be too thick. :(