I knit tightly, so I’m using US 6 for ribbing, 7 for stockinette, and 8 for colorwork.

Also I added a steek! After advice from my friend theladywholunches, I knitted the neck ribbing flat, then cast on the steek stitches during the first stockinette round. I moved the BOR to be with the steek stitches instead of the center back, so that the feathers won’t get cut by the steek.

I also widened the back neck short row distance, because as written, it forms a bit of a funnel on me (FYI, I have broad square shoulders, and this is a common sweater yoke issue, not the pattern’s fault).

I also enlarged the feather pattern a bit, because my size put me with the chart that has the line between the feathers. However, I preferred the cleaner look of the smaller sizes without that extra vertical line, so I just made the feather 2 stitches wider, making the floats short enough to not be cumbersome!

Notes on steeking:
-machine sewn: On the stitch just left of the central steek stitch, machine sew a line down one half of the V, then the other half, of the stitch column. Do the same 2 parallel lines on both halves of the V of the stitches just to the right of central steek stitches.
-cut down the central steek stitch.
-pick up and knit from the ladder column in between the outmost steek stitches and the main body of work, to form the button bands. Start with left front, then knit the held stitches from the body, then right front. Ready to begin ribbing.
-1x1 rib beginning on WS, so start with (p1, k1), and ending with a p1.
-when at the front corners, make mitred corners by doing m1L and m1R every row. This creates a ribbed corner that follows the 1x1 rib of the entire band.
-on the 2nd row of ribbing, which is a RS, do 1 set of German short rows just at the corners to help it have a sharper corner early on. Remember to k/p tog the double stitches from the short row.
-3 row double YO buttonhole