10-20-2023

Back ribbing and first two repeats complete. Steam blocked to check row gauge, as garter stitch filled diamonds want to compress. Looks like blocking will give me the correct row gauge. 17%

10-23-2023

Pretty sure my stockinette gauge is spot on for this pattern (18 sts and 24 rows), but row gauge is off for the cable pattern.
Blocked what I had after first two full repeats. The fabric did relax, but my row gauge is 27 rows over 4’’, not 25 when working the cable pattern.

11-01-2023

Shoulder shaping
The shoulder bind offs didn’t take cable flare into account, so I reduced the number of sts to be bound off from 33 to 24 by working 3 decreases in each of the 3 BO sections. When there was a 3/1 cable cross in the last row or two, I eliminated the st crossing under by working it together with the adjacent st crossing over. I also decreased sts while binding off. Rather than doing stair step bind offs, I worked short row shaping so that I could bind off all sts at the same time. Because I had to work decreases while binding off, I opted not to do a 3NBO, but to seam the shoulders together, instead.

Sleeves
Rather than working the stockinette sleeves bottom up, flat, and seaming them, I will PU sts at the shoulder and knit them top down, in the round. The sweater is a drop shoulder, so I will mark the UA location, seam the sides of the body, and then do the PU.

11-02-2023

Body complete, washed and blocked, shoulders seamed, and one side seam complete. Collar knit, washed and blocked. First sleeve PU and knit, 35 rows down from shoulder seam. PU rate 5:7. 90% complete

11-03-2023

All knitting finished. Just need to sew on the collar and weave in a few ends. 99%

12-04-2023

Wasn’t happy with how constricting the collar BO edge was. You can see it in the pattern photo, and it was the same in my project. Took about 2/3 of the ribbing out, then increased near each end of the back sts, 4 sts (one ribbing repeat) to create extra length turning the corner from the back neck to the front neck. Worked the increases every other row (on the inside face of the collar). Much happier with the result.

I sewed the collar edge across the bottom of the neck opening by sewing the edge crossing to the front as a regular horizontal:vertical seam, then turned the sweater inside out and whip stitched the selvedge of the other collar edge to to the selvedge of the already-sewn-in edge. The garter bump selvedge made that fairly easy to do, matching bump to bump.