Well, I love this pattern for the child’s sizes…. and I was upset that the adult sizes are so small! I looked on Rav for two hours looking for a sweater for myself, but nothing matched what I was looking for. I decided to just try to make this work, by casting on enough for my chest size (38”/96cm) while the largest size given is for 34”. I figured 2 stitches added per inch on the chest, so we’ll see. The designer made a four inch difference between size 32” and size 34” so we will see if it works.

Cast on: 132 stitches
I followed all directions, increases etc as stated in pattern. When I came to the armholes, I counted and the total stitches was 296.
Knit 80, place 67 on contrasting yarn to hold, cast on 22; knit 80, place 67 on contrasting yarn to hold, cast on 22, knit 2. (End of row)
Follow directions.
I have been following the increased towards the bottom of the sweater as instructed. Now I am towards the end where the ripple starts, but I’m lengthening the end, because I’ve scrapped the ripple idea and I’m doing 2by2 ribbing….
after I knit 5 rounds as k2,p2 Repeat…. I switched to US size 3 needles and knit 4 more rounds. I finally did a simple bind off.

I picked up a sleeve, back onto needles, using US size 6. I have done this for the sleeves:
knit 5 rounds, work one decrease (as described in instructions) knit 2 rounds, 1 dec, knit 1 row, 1 dec, repeat until only 70 stitches remain.
Next row:K2, K2tog and knit remaining until 3 stitches remain, K2tog, K last stitch.
Next row: Knit
Next row: ribbing 1by1
Finally bind off!