04/19/2024 - Trying to use up 28 year old stash, so I will be striping the sweater and making it short sleeved. All of my color changing decisions were based 100% on the amount of yarn I was working with ;)

06/21/2024 - Unfortunately, even though I used cold water for the pre-block soak, the navy blue yarn bled. Since I do really like the FO, and the bleeding is actually pretty consistent, I’m just going to rock it like it’s an intentional vintage, garment wash

NOTES

1. Based on my gauge swatch, I knit size 4 and used US 6 for the neck/armhole ribbing, US 7 for the body ribbing and US 10 for body/sleeves.
2. Since I am using 100% cotton, I decided against the fold over collar. I picked up with the green yarn, knit 1 row, knit 9 rows of 1x1 ribbing, switched to the white yarn, knit 1 row, then bound off knitwise.
3. I did the set up row for placing the raglan markers with the navy, then did all of the short rows with it. Once I started knitting in the round again, I transitions back to the tan.
4. My navy and tan stripes are 8 rows. Once I started the body, I calculated how much yarn I was going to need to finish the body and figured out I would not have enough of the navy and tan to make it all the body with them, so after 2 stripes, I did a 3 stripes (8 row stripes as well) with 2 contrast colors (white and green).
5. I knit the body to 12.5” at the side seam before starting the hem ribbing. For the hem, using the navy, I knit 1 row, knit 9 rows of 1x1 ribbing, knit 1 row and then bound off knitwise.
6. After picking my sleeve stitches up, I knit 1 stripe (8 rows of navy), switched to the green color, knit 1 row, knit 9 rows of 1x1 ribbing, switched to the white, knit 1 row, then bound off knitwise.