approx 4500 stitches

Minor adjustments to pattern:

• Row 1, work stitches into the back bump, to create a neat neck edge
• instead of starting new rows with ch 2, I turned, NO CH but worked a sc in the 1st st and ch 1 - this creates a thicker first stitch and seems neater to me, closer to the size of a dc
• omitted the last two rows of the pattern
• 26 rows
• added a row of sl st to the bottom edge and neckline to stabilize
• added a row of sc along both front edges and then a row of sl st.