Knitting in the round and will steek down the middle later to avoid purl rows. Will attempt to do raglan sleeves to avoid purling colorwork rows at top. Used tubular cast on for 2x2 rib. Pattern photo shows 1x1 rib; written pattern has 2x2 rib.

Will suggest to anyone knitting this to learn to do cabling without a cable needle--every other row has cabling on every stitch.

For the pocket hole, this is what I would do if I were to make it again: move the 36 stitches onto a stitch holder but make YOs between each stitch and use those YOs to continue the body of the cardigan. I only know one way to cast on stitches in the middle of knitting, and it is too bulky since the subsequent cabling draws the fabric together too much (see photo), so the YOs would’ve been a better option. It would also have allowed me to not make a seam at the bottom of the pocket when I finish it.

4 Dec ‘11: Finished body as shown in photo.

March ‘18: I guess Winter Was Coming because I let this hibernate for six years… I have now finished the sleeves to the arm hole and placed body and sleeves on one circular needle to finish in the round. I will not do raglan after all because it would distort the color work too much. Instead, I will attempt to use decreases instead of the pattern’s cast offs at the arm holes and neck, leaving two stitches in stockinette st at each transition between parts.

April ‘18: there appears to be mistakes in the pattern for the sleeve caps because, when I followed the pattern, I was supposed to end with 7 sts after the decreases, but I ended with too few sts to even complete the final decrease. I jerry rigged it, but it made the shoulder a bit pointy, so I will have to use small seams to round it off.

1 May ‘18: Because I steeked, decided to use the steek sandwich method (https://katedaviesdesigns.com/tag/steeks/) for the bands with 1X1 rib. I picked up sts around the neck and used Japanese short rows with increases by the back neck (k, yo, k) in one sts on either side of the neck on every other row when close to done with the short rows. (Idea for shaping is from https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/winter-petrichor) Made the collar and steek sandwich fade into each other, then using I-cord bind off around the entire edge and with Elizabeth Zimmerman’s I-cord tab buttonholes.

2 May ‘18: finally done, 7 years later! Used I-cord for belt loops to match the edging of the neck band. Considering whether to cover mistakes in the color work, but don’t think I will as the blue stitches that need to be covered is a 3x3 square, which I think will show through. Also realized I put the buttons on the wrong side of the opening, but it’s WAY too late to do anything about that now.