Love this, and have been wearing it a lot, both by itself and over thin shirts.

Update: The pattern has been modified since I knit this, so the neckband instructions are now included

The sweater is nicely designed, but the pattern isn’t written very well and is missing the last half of the instructions for the neckband - plus there’s an error in the cable instructions. But it turned out great, and it’s really comfortable. I would definitely make this again. Omitting the front cable would make a great basic pullover.

Had to use 6.5mm needles instead of 6.0mm needles for the correct gauge with this yarn, but then I was spot-on for both stitches and rows. I used a US 9/5.5mm needle for the bottom rib, but I think it would have been better if I’d used a 6mm or 6.5mm needle instead, so it wouldn’t pull in as much. For the rib at the sleeves, I just used the 6.5mm needle that I was using for the body. For the neckband, I used a US 10/6mm

Knit in the round to the armholes to avoid bulky side seams.

I added one pattern repeat in length (12 rows, about 3”). Because of the cable pattern, you probably want to modify the length by a full pattern repeat of 12 rows, so that you don’t end up trying to start the neckline at a bad place in the cable pattern. If you want to add or remove length in less than 12-row increments, it would probably be best to add half of the extra rows to the bottom before starting the cable pattern, and half to the top.

From the photo, it looks like the neckband is 5 or 6 rows of 1x1 rib. I only did 4.

For the sleeves, I didn’t want them quite as wide as they would have been if I had followed the pattern. I cast on 32 sts using the US 10.5/6.5mm needles, and worked 1x1 rib in the round for 10 rows. I started increasing on the 20th round after the ribbing, then increased on the following 6th, 12th, 6th, 22nd, and 8th rounds, which brought me to the correct total of stitches for the medium sleeve. I worked 3 more rounds, then started the bind-offs and finished the sleeve cap as per the pattern. I used the length specified in the pattern.

The sleeve caps are really well designed for the sweater - they fit the armscyes perfectly.

There is no schematic for the pattern, but here are some additional measurements I calculated that aren’t given in the pattern:

Height of armscye: 7” (7.5”, 8”)
Height of ribbing on hem and sleeves: 2.5”
Cross Back width: 12.5” (13.7”, 14.8”)
Width of each shoulder, not including neckband: 3.5” (4”, 4.5”)

I had only a few yards of yarn left over from the 10 skeins, although I also had a few swatches that I did not reuse. Actual amount of yarn used for the sweater was about 9.5 skeins.

The finished sweater has about 4” of positive ease for me, and has a nice, comfortable fit without being too baggy, and is roomy enough for a lightweight top underneath if I want. If you want a really oversized sweater, you’ll probably need to go with at least 6” of positive ease.

The yarn is quite nice for an acrylic blend. It’s soft and cozy.

Some notes on interpreting the pattern:

For the increases on the first row of the front (for the cable), where it says “increase 1 st knitwise into the next 6 sts”, I did a right-lifted increase in each stitch. I don’t think it would really make much difference in appearance if you wanted to just do a kf&b in each stitch.

When it says something like “decrease 1 st at each end of next and following alternate rows, 4 times”, it means to decrease a TOTAL of 4 times, not to do the first decrease and then 4 more times. Fortunately, the stitch counts are given, so be sure you do your increases or decreases to the correct stitch count.

The written instructions for the cable are a little hard to follow, and there is an error: Row 2 should end with K7, not P7. The cable crossings are done on rows 5 and 7. The 5th row performs half of the cable crossing, and the 7th row finishes it. I created a chart for better reference.