This is a brilliant pattern!
I love the whole concept of one stroke of yarn. This truly is a leap of faith. Just follow the instructions and it all comes together.

I found Juliayork’s instructions for choosing a sized very helpful. She suggests measuring where the ribbing will go by wrapping the tape measure around your right front, neck, left front and waist. She has a photo of this process that makes it very clear. After doing this I decided on a size Large.

To cast on I liked the Crochet Provisional Cast On method the best and found the New Stitch a Day video made the most sense.

I need all the help I can get so I placed marker between each repeat. I still made a booboo when transitioning to chart D. I mistakenly forgot the decreases in the first row of Chart A and had to tink 4 rows. Oh well…it’s good for the character as my sister would say!