If I’d realized the gray was only used for the bottom zigzag, I probably would have used the black/white multi yarn for that too - or used some stash yarn, rather than buying a whole skein of yarn for such a small section.

Since I do not live in Norway, I am probably crazy for knitting a stranded pullover in such heavy wool. (Ravelry calls it worsted, but I’d say it’s more like aran-weight.)

Will do a crew neck instead of a turtleneck. If it’s still unbearably hot, I guess I can turn it into a cardigan.

Decided to start with the yoke so that I can check the fit, and then work the rest of the sweater down from there.

Had terrible trouble getting consistent gauge with this yarn, both in the stranded and stockinette portions. (I don’t mean matching the pattern gauge, I mean that different parts kept coming out differently - even when I knit the sleeves, they were very different in gauge.) I don’t normally have that problem, so I’m not sure what it is. Maybe it’s the superwash yarn, as I don’t usually knit with superwash, or make sweaters from wool/nylon blends. I ended up knitting a lot of the sweater twice, including the entire yoke, a sleeve, and quite a bit of the body.

I was going to knit the body and sleeves first, as called for in the pattern, but since I was having so much gauge trouble, I decided to make the yoke first and knit the body down. As long as the yoke fit, I could make the rest work however I needed to.

I’d already knit the sleeves, though, so that meant having to graft them onto the yoke. It wasn’t actually that bad to do. But before grafting them, I just basted them in place while I knit part of the body. I wanted to be sure that the sleeves would fit OK before I did the real grafting. Having the sleeves in place (even just basted in) made it easier to tell if the fit of the body was OK.

Despite having knit the pieces in a strange order, the only real modifications I made to the pattern were to skip the first few rows of the yoke (because of my row gauge), and to do a crew neck instead of a turtleneck.

For the neck, I worked 6 extra decreases along the back on the first round after the yoke, because it was too loose in back (the front was OK). I worked the short rows in 1x1 rib instead of stockinette, to pull in a bit more fabric. After knitting one final round after the short rows, I bound off with a 3-stitch I-cord bind off.

I had planned to duplicate-stitch the white fleck motif that should have been on the bottom of the yoke, but after doing a few repeats, I didn’t really like how it looked so I decided to skip it.