16.09 - Can’t get the pattern to work as expected.
Maybe it’s not suitable for combined knitting. :(

17.09 - Got help from Joan Forgione. With a magnified photo of the pattern from her website, and a lot of searching on YouTube I finally got it how to master this beautiful pattern. Also made a visual chart for my own use.

18.09 - started again with 4mm needles. Then I found How to Increase Stitches Evenly Across a Row when I was puzzled (once more) over the regular increases in row 5.

I found how to do the travelling stitches in combined knitting. YEAH!

19.09 - The pattern is turning out beautifully. By knitting the LT / RT with one knit and the back purled (as true travelling stitches) all BACK rows are intuitive. Just knitting what I see, and it’s easy to find errors.

Added first picture of the pattern

21.09 - Finally got some good photos. It’s growing and thriving :)

22.09 - Started 3rd skein

23.09 - Taking next picture at 11” (28cm)

28.09 - Starting the Raglan Shaping of the back.

29.09 - Finished Backside. Casting on for right front!

30.09 - Bought very nice blue buttons. Started learning about knitting nice button holes. Found How to Knit a Tidy and Strong Buttonhole - Crochet Cast-On Buttonholes. Yeah! They look even better than the ones on the model!

02.10 - I had to frogg 8cm because I added the second buttonhole at 12.5cm not 13.5cm :(

03.10 - Added 3 new pictures, 2 with buttons I can’t decide about.

04.10 - Starting the raglan shaping for the right side.
Found out that the pattern doesn’t match up at the side :(

06.10 - finished right front. Some odd counting in the pattern still confuses me

07.10 - Going crazy with speed-knitting the left front

11.10 - Some stuff came up preventing me from finishing the left front earlier, but now it’s done. And another half glass of orange juice as reward (since I am not into chocolates anymore. Seems my baby doesn’t like it.)

11.10 - Casting on for left sleeve.

04.11 - finished all parts

09.11 - finished joining all parts. The right front was very difficult because the pattern doesn’t match.

10.11 - now going to pick up the stitches from right front around the neck for the collar. Heck, THIS is a pain in the neck. Picking up every stitch yields 156 stitches… now where to leave something out? Then after I figured this out, I had to change my strategy for picking up entirely, because as this is a jacket and not a sweater, one can occasionally see the inside of the collar, which should look neat. So froggggggging :) once more. Now using only the facing half of the bound off stitch.

12.11 - I got confused by the instructions to ‘just carry on’, but Joan again helped me by explaining that the increases are repeated until the collar is 24cm long

22.11 - Finished the collar. Strangely instead of binding off 67 I had to bind off 77 and then 8 stitches remained.

Now only the border needs to be done.

24.11 - Finished the collar border. I had to do some math to make it fit (as I had more rows than anticipated in the pattern and more stitches as well). I calculated that for each 3 rows I had to pick up 4 stitches, and for each 10 pattern stitches I had to pick up 9 border stitches.

There are no special instructions for the corners, but I started with an increase in each row, 1 - 3 - 5 at the corner points (for the first 3 rows, the fourth no increase), so the border came out very nice.

Now going to tackle the 2 side borders (should have done them all at once. With 600+ stitches :) )

Now 1.5 years later I summoned the buttons and added a last photograph.

It was a challenge, but I LOVE the outcome.