04-05-2020

On chart 1! Some notes on what I did so far:

• Provisional cable CO for the folded over collar with a 3 needle join. I counted the join row as the first of the two stockinette rows after the collar.
• I futzed something up with the short rows where I ended up with an extra stitch and had to rip it back to the collar. Did it over again with a lot more stitch markers and kept much closer track of where I was in the pattern.
• Before I started the colorwork I marked where I want to catch floats so that there’s a nice pattern on the WS, rather than just doing every 5. I also have a stitch marker every 5 stitches to reflect the thick grid lines in the chart, which is overkill, but it’s helping me not get lost since I’m a relative colorwork novice. Doing the chart section really slowly row by row but it’s looking great!

04-28-2020

Last week was a sad one - ripped out all of chart 1 because I realized my floats were too short, which was making the fabric bunch up in the big MC sections. Lesson learned ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Now I’m caught back up and it’s looking much better, I’m glad I did it. I started charts 2/3 today and they’re a lot more fun than chart 1 because they’re so irregular and nothing’s repeated.

In section 4 where you separate for the sleeves, the pattern doesn’t explicitly instruct you to knit into the first 6 CO stitches to get back to the MM before you knit Rnd 2, so maybe I screwed something up but it seems fine?

05-25-2020

Did the body exactly as described by the pattern, but modified the sleeves to be longer:

1. In Section 8: Sleeves, where it says to repeat Rnd 1 to 5 rep 10 more times, I did it 12 times. Since I’d decreased 4 additional stitches to 47, I did (k2tog, k7) 4 times instead of k8, for 42 stitches for the cuff ribbing. I have tiny wrists!

2. Did 38 rows of cuff ribbing instead of 27, so they can either be nice and long or I can fold them back.

Almost done can’t wait to block!!!!

07-16-2020

Finished this a while ago and I love it!

Two notes on the fit:

• The shoulders are a little boxy, I’m hoping they relax with wear.
• The length is perfect on me, but I have a somewhat short torso and prefer to wear things cropped, so I could see it being a bit short on others.

The yarn bloomed a lot so my extended sleeve length was a little over the top (I laughed at myself), but wearing them rolled up is cute because it matches the collar.

I haven’t had a chance to wear it yet because it got warm the day I finished, but can’t wait to snuggle into it this fall and winter.