Moving right along on this… Just two evenings of knitting and I’ve completed the back and gotten a good start on the collar - would’ve gotten further with the collar, but there was an error in the directions and I wanted to double check before I continued.

The collar should read:
Inc. 1 stitch at beg on next and following 5 right side rows - 16 sts.

Of course, that means there will have to be a corresponding correction for the decreases on the other side of the collar.

After reading in a few other folk’s project notes that the arms came out a bit short, I’m considering picking them up and working them from the top down.