This is SUCH a frustratingly charted pattern. It is NOT intuitive how to incorporate new stitches. UGH! throws knitting away

Frogged everything and am starting over. The top looked absolutely sloppy because … non-intuitive pattern incorporation in sleeve.

Finally finished this, and as a lot of comments have indicated from other people, the main difficulty lay in the unclear instructions on how to incorporate new stitches.

It’s a nice sweater now that it is blessedly done. The Miss Babs yarn was fantastic, although I bought a full skein too much, yikes.