As a beginning knitter, I bit off more than I can chew. LOTS of mistakes: took almost as much time to mostly fix them as to knit the dress. (Don’t look too close.)

Read all the comments in Ravelry that others made, but took none of the advice. (Yep, learning.) Found that I didn’t really need any; the pattern was written well enough.

Used Jeni’s stretchy bind off. With that and the pattern itself, did not find that the neck was in any way too small/tight to fit over Hana’s head. She’ll wear this for a loooong time.